An empirical study of user preference and performance with UML diagrams

Proceedings - IEEE 2002 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, HCC 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 31-33

  Britton, C ^a   Kutar, M ^a   Anthony, S ^a   Barker, T ^a   Beecham, Sarah ^a   Wilkinson, Vitoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION DIAGRAM; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; REQUIREMENTS PROCESS; REQUIREMENTS TECHNIQUES; TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES; UML DIAGRAMS; USER REQUIREMENTS;

EID: 56649110965     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HCC.2002.1046338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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