Paper Info
Title
A controlled experiment for corroborating the usefulness of class diagram metrics at the early phases of OO developments
Abstract
The quality of class diagrams is critical because it has a great influence on the quality of the object oriented information system (OOIS) which are finally delivered. This fact motivated us to define a set of measures for evaluating the structural complexity (an internal quality attribute) of class diagrams made using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), which nowadays is the standard language for object oriented modelling. These measures could be used to predict class diagram external quality characteristics, such as maintainability, early in the OOIS life-cycle. In order to corroborate the practical utility of those metrics, we have put them under empirical validation by means of a controlled experiment. The description of each of the steps carried out to perform the experiment and the construction of the prediction model for class diagram maintainability are the main goals of this paper.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2001
ADIS
information system quality,prediction models,empirical validation,class diagram maintainability,. object oriented metrics,fuzzy prototypical knowledge discovery,class diagram structural complexity,knowledge discovery,prediction model,structural complexity,class diagram,life cycle,unified modeling language,information system
Field
DocType
Citations 
Information system,Data mining,Unified Modeling Language,Object-oriented programming,Software engineering,Standard language,Computer science,Communication diagram,Controlled experiment,Maintainability,Class diagram
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marcela Genero196860.55
José A. Olivas210620.85
Mario Piattini34232354.63
Francisco P. Romero423527.46