:Building software models before implementing them has become widely accepted in the software industry. Object models, graphically represented by class diagrams, lay the foundation...
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 mo...
Early phases of software development are known to be problematic, difficult to manage and errors occurring during these phases are expensive to correct. Many systems have been deve...
We present an approach of how to automatically extract an XML document structure from a conceptual data model that describes the content of the document. We use UML class diagrams ...
In software engineering it is widely acknowledged that the usage of metrics at the initial phases of the object oriented software life cycle can help designers to make better decis...
M. Esperanza Manso, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini