An experimental evaluation of the impact of system sequence diagrams and system operation contracts on the quality of the domain model

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 157-166

  Briand, Lionel ^a   Labiche, Yvan ^b   Madrazo Rivera, Reymes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Domain model; Experiment; System operation contract; System sequence diagram; UML

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; LIFE CYCLE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOFTWARE DESIGN; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DOMAIN MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; OBJECT ORIENTED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN; SOFTWARE BEST PRACTICES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SYSTEM OPERATION CONTRACTS; SYSTEM SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84858734714     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/esem.2011.24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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