The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
A Controlled Experiment for Validating Class Diagram Structural Complexity Metrics
OOIS '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Object-Oriented. Information Systems
OOA Metrics for the Unified Modeling Language
CSMR '98 Proceedings of the 2nd Euromicro Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering ( CSMR'98)
No-redundant metrics for UML class diagram structural complexity
CAiSE'03 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Advanced information systems engineering
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In the object-oriented analysis phase, class diagrams are used to represent the static structure of objects in a system and the kinds of static relationships that exist among them, which lay the foundation for all later design and development. Therefore, their complexity has a significant impact on the quality of the ultimate system. For quantifying the structural complexity of a class diagram precisely, this paper presents a structural complexity model called weighted class dependence graph (WCDG), in which almost all relationships among classes/interfaces that can be found during the object-oriented analysis phase are represented and their degrees are characterized by weights. Based on the WCDG, this paper depicts the occurrence of the outgoing and incoming edges by two discrete random variables and then uses entropy distance to derive a novel structural complexity measure called EDC. We believe that EDC is flexible and could evaluate the structural complexity of class diagrams more objectively.