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The use of UML class diagrams and its effect on code change-proneness

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Visser, Joost Vargas, Rut Torres Chaudron, Michel Nugroho, Ariadi
Abstract	The goal of this study is to investigate the use of UML and its impact on the change proneness of the implementation code. We look at whether the use of UML class diagrams, as opposed to using no modeling notation, influences code change proneness. Furthermore, using five design metrics we measure the quality of UML class diagrams and explore its correlation with code change proneness. Based on a UML model of an industrial system and multiple snapshots of the implementation code, we have found that at the system level the change proneness of code modeled using class diagrams is lower than that of code that is not modeled at all. However, we observe different results when performing the analysis at different system levels (e.g., subsystem and sub subsystem). Additionally, we have found significant correlations between class diagram size, complexity, and level of detail and the change proneness of the implementation code.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450318112
DOI	10.1145/2424563.2424566
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2012-10-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Unified modeling language Quality Code churn
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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