The effect of layout on the comprehension of UML class diagrams: A controlled experiment

Proceedings of VISSOFT 2009 - 5th IEEE International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 11-18

  Sharif, Bonita ^a   Maletic, Jonathan I ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; PROGRAMMING ABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EXPERIMENTS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 73649128265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VISSOF.2009.5336430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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