Abstract
UML class diagrams representing the static structure of the relations between different concepts existing in a problem are widely used in model-based software development. However, no effective measures of a class diagram's understandability yet exist. We have devised quantitative measures of a class diagram's understandability and evaluated their validity. We obtained strong correlations between the domain experts' subjective evaluations of the understandability of a class diagram and the measurements of our methods. These results indicate that our measures can effectively quantify the understandability of class diagrams.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings - Joint Conference of the 21st International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2011 and the 6th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, MENSURA 2011 |
Pages | 178-187 |
Number of pages | 10 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Event | Joint Conference of the 21st International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2011 and the 6th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, MENSURA 2011 - Nara Duration: 2011 Nov 3 → 2011 Nov 4 |
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Other | Joint Conference of the 21st International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2011 and the 6th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, MENSURA 2011 |
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City | Nara |
Period | 11/11/3 → 11/11/4 |
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Keywords
- Maintainability
- Software design metrics
- Software evaluation
- Software metrics
- UML class diagrams
- Understandability
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
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Evaluation of understandability of UML class diagrams by using word similarity. / Nakamura, Yuto; Sakamoto, Kazunori; Inoue, Kiyohisa; Washizaki, Hironori; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki.
Proceedings - Joint Conference of the 21st International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2011 and the 6th International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, MENSURA 2011. 2011. p. 178-187 6113058.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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PY - 2011
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