The effect of coupling on understanding and modifying OCL expressions: An experimental analysis;Un análisis experimental sobre el efecto del acoplamiento en la comprensibilidad y facilidad de modificación de expresiones OCL

IEEE Latin America Transactions

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-135

  Reynoso, L ^a   Genero, M ^b   Piattini, M ^b   Manso, Ma E ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c Grupo de Investigación GIRO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coupling; Data models; Modeling; Software metrics; Software quality; Student experiment

Indexed keywords

DATA MODELS; MODELING; SOFTWARE METRICS; SOFTWARE QUALITY; STUDENT EXPERIMENT;

EXPERIMENTS; MAINTAINABILITY; MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

EID: 78449257869     PISSN: 15480992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TLA.2006.1642461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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