Experimental Comparison of Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams in Different Application Domains

Chanan Glezer; Mark Last; Efrat Nahmani; Peretz Shoval

Experimental Comparison of Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams in Different Application Domains

Chanan Glezer, Mark Last, Efrat Nahmani, Peretz Shoval

Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering

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Abstract

This article reports the findings from a controlled experiment where both the comprehensibility and the quality of UML interaction diagrams were investigated in two application domains: management information system (MIS) and real-time (RT) system. The results indicate that collaboration diagrams are easier to comprehend than sequence diagrams in RT systems, while there is no difference in their comprehension in MIS. With respect to quality of diagrams constructed by analysts, in MIS collaboration diagrams are of better quality than sequence diagrams, while in RT there is no significant difference in their quality.

Original language	English GB
Title of host publication	Conf. Tenth CAISE/IFIP8. 1 Int'l Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD’05)
Pages	463-476
State	Published - 2005
Event	Proc. of the Tenth CAISE/ IFIP8.1 Int'l Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD’05) - Porto, Portugal Duration: 6 Jun 2005 → …

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Conference	Proc. of the Tenth CAISE/ IFIP8.1 Int'l Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD’05)
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Porto
Period	6/06/05 → …

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Glezer, C, Last, M, Nahmani, E & Shoval, P 2005, Experimental Comparison of Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams in Different Application Domains. in Conf. Tenth CAISE/IFIP8. 1 Int'l Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD’05). pp. 463-476, Proc. of the Tenth CAISE/ IFIP8.1 Int'l Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD’05), Porto, Portugal, 6/06/05.

Experimental Comparison of Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams in Different Application Domains. / Glezer, Chanan; Last, Mark; Nahmani, Efrat et al.
Conf. Tenth CAISE/IFIP8. 1 Int'l Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD’05). 2005. p. 463-476.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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