Assessing the influence of stereotypes on the comprehension of UML sequence diagrams: A controlled experiment

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

Volumn 5301 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 280-294

  Genero, Marcela ^a   Cruz Lemus, José A ^a   Caivano, Danilo ^b   Abrahão, Silvia ^c   Insfran, Emilio ^c   Carsí, José A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SCIENCE; EXPERIMENTS; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MODELS;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; SEMANTIC COMPREHENSIONS; UML SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 56649083380     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87875-9_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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