A realistic empirical evaluation of the costs and benefits of UML in software maintenance

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 407-432

  Dzidek, Wojciech James ^a,b   Arisholm, Erik ^a,b   Briand, Lionel C ^a,b  

^a SIMULA RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Empirical software engineering; Modeling; Object oriented programming; Quasiexperiment; Software maintainability; UML

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; EXPERIMENTS; FINANCE; MAINTENANCE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE DESIGN; STANDARDS; SYSTEM PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

CONTROL GROUP (CON); CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DE FACTO STANDARDS; DESIGN QUALITY; DEVELOPMENT TIME; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVOLUTION (CO); FUNCTIONAL CORRECTNESS; INFORMED DECISIONS; NON-TRIVIAL; OBJECT-ORIENTED (OO) SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE INDUSTRY; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE (UML);

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 45449102151     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2008.15     Document Type: Article

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