A subject-based empirical evaluation of SSUCD's performance in reducing inconsistencies in use case models

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 477-512

  El Attar, Mohamed ^a   Miller, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inconsistencies; Non parametric analysis; Quality attributes; SSUCD; Subject based experiment; Use cases

Indexed keywords

CASE DESCRIPTION; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DAMAGING EFFECTS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; NEW STRUCTURES; NON-PARAMETRIC ANALYSIS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; USE CASE MODEL; USE CASE MODELING;

EXPERIMENTS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 72449182846     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9101-9     Document Type: Article

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