An empirical study on the efficiency of different design pattern representations in UML class diagrams

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 493-522

  Porras, Gerardo Cepeda ^a,b   Guéhéneuc, Yann Gaël ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Giro Inc   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Design patterns; Empirical study; Eye tracking; UML class diagrams; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CLASS DIAGRAMS; DESIGN PATTERNS; DESIGN PROBLEMS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EYE TRACKERS; EYE-TRACKING; UML CLASS DIAGRAMS; UML COLLABORATIONS; UML DIAGRAMS; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 77954757588     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-009-9125-9     Document Type: Article

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