Empirical studies to assess the understandability of data warehouse schemas using structural metrics

Software Quality Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-106

  Serrano, Manuel Angel ^a   Calero, Coral ^a   Sahraoui, Houari A ^a,b   Piattini, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data warehouse; Empirical studies; Metrics; Quality

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CLASSIFICATION ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION RULES; CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; METRICS; PROBABILISTIC TECHNIQUE; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES;

DATA WAREHOUSES;

EID: 37849048925     PISSN: 09639314     EISSN: 15731367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11219-007-9030-7     Document Type: Article

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