An empirical study on the comprehension of stereotyped UML class diagram layouts

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 268-272

  Sharif, Bonita ^a   Maletic, Jonathan I ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE VALUES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EYE-TRACKING; ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

EID: 70349993141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2009.5090055     Document Type: Article

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