Evaluating using animation to improve understanding of sequence diagrams

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 107-113

  Burd, E ^a   Overy, D ^a   Wheetman, A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animation; Control systems; Hardware; Investments; Jacobian matrices; Software performance; Software systems; Testing; Unified modeling language; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; CONTROL SYSTEMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INVESTMENTS; JACOBIAN MATRICES; MODELING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE TESTING; TESTING; VISUALIZATION;

ANIMATION SYSTEMS; ANIMATION TECHNIQUES; DYNAMIC VISUALIZATION; SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS; SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; STATIC REPRESENTATION; UML SEQUENCE DIAGRAMS;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84948650903     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2002.1021329     Document Type: Conference Paper

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