Does object coupling really affect the understanding and modifying of OCL expressions?

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1721-1727

  Reynoso, Luis ^a   Genera, Marcela ^b   Piattini, Mario ^b   Manso, Esperanza ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c University of Campus Miguel Delibes   (Spain)

Author keywords

Controlled experiments; Coupling; Empirical validation; Modifiability; Object oriented measures; OCL expressions; Structural properties; UML OCL models; Understandability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; OBJECT-ORIENTED MEASURES; OCL EXPRESSIONS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; UML/OCL MODELS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 33751033388     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1141277.1141686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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