کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
550728 872696 2009 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Guidelines on the aesthetic quality of UML class diagrams
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر تعامل انسان و کامپیوتر
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Guidelines on the aesthetic quality of UML class diagrams
چکیده انگلیسی

In the past, formatting guidelines have proved to be a successful method to improve the readability of source code. With the increasing success of visual specification languages such as UML for model-driven software engineering visual guidelines are needed to standardize the presentation and the exchange of modeling diagrams with respect to human communication, understandability and readability. In this article, we introduce a new and encompassing taxonomy of visual guidelines capturing the aesthetic quality of UML class diagrams. We propose these guidelines as a framework to improve the aesthetic quality and thus the understandability of UML class diagrams. To validate this claim, we describe in detail a controlled experiment carried out as a pilot study to gather preliminary insights on the effects of some of the guideline rules on the understandability of UML class diagrams.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Information and Software Technology - Volume 51, Issue 12, December 2009, Pages 1686–1698
نویسندگان
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