Does the combined use of class and sequence diagrams improve the source code comprehension?: Results from a controlled experiment

Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling, EESSMod 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Scanniello, Giuseppe ^a   Gravino, Carmine ^b   Tortora, Genoveffa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

comprehension; controlled experiment; UML

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; SOURCE CODES; UML;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84873851802     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2424563.2424569     Document Type: Conference Paper

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