Using controlled experiments for validating UML statechart diagrams measures

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

Volumn 4895 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 129-138

  Cruz Lemus, José A ^a   Genero, Marcela ^a   Piattini, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL VALIDATIONS; UML STATECHART DIAGRAMS; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 54249112914     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-85553-8_11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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