No-redundant metrics for UML class diagram structural complexity

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2681, Issue , 2003, Pages 127-142

  Manso, Ma Esperanza ^a   Genero, Marcela ^b   Piattini, Mario ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Class diagram maintainability; Class diagram structural complexity; Empirical validation; Metrics; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LIFE CYCLE; MAINTAINABILITY; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLASS DIAGRAMS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; EXTERNAL QUALITY; METRICS; OBJECT ORIENTED SOFTWARE; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 35248899873     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45017-3_11     Document Type: Article

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