Assessing the support of ER and UML class diagrams during maintenance activities on data models

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-182

  De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Gravino, Carmine ^a   Oliveto, Rocco ^a   Tortora, Genoveffa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data models; Empirical studies; ER diagrams; Maintenance; UML class diagrams

Indexed keywords

BACHELOR STUDENTS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; DATA MODELLING; DATA MODELS; E-R DIAGRAM; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ER DIAGRAMS; EUROPEAN; MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES; PERFORMING MAINTENANCE; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EXPERIMENTS; GRAPHIC METHODS; MAINTENANCE; QUERY PROCESSING; REENGINEERING; STUDENTS; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 50249120729     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2008.4493312     Document Type: Conference Paper

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