Empirical evaluation of a UML sequence diagram with adornments to support understanding of thread interactions

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 123-132

  Xie, Shaohua ^a   Kraemer, Eileen ^a   Stirewalt, R E K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTI-THREADED SYSTEM; TEXTUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; STUDENTS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 34948889336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2007.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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