Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models

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Reynoso, Luis A.; Genero Bocco, Marcela; Piattini Velthuis, Mario
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2004
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UML models quality is clearly a crucial issue that must be evaluated at the initial stages of object-oriented software development, in order to get software products with better quality. This fact is corroborated by the huge amount of metrics that have appeared in the literature related to the measurement of UML diagrams at a high level design stage. Most of these metrics are focused on the measurement of internal quality attributes such as structural complexity, coupling, size, etc. However, none of the proposed metrics take into account the added complexity involved when a UML model are complemented by expressions written in Object Constraint Language (OCL), that is a UML/OCL model. Due OCL is essential in building consistent and coherent platform-independent models we propose a metric suite for structural properties of OCL expressions. These metrics were proposed considering OCL concepts related to the "chunking" and "tracing" cognitive techniques. We believe that cognitive techniques affect the cognitive complexity, and by consequence the understandability and maintainability of expression of UML/OCL models. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to show how we defined these metrics in a methodological way, assuring thus their validity.
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Object Constraint Language (OCL)
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models
title Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models
spellingShingle Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models
Reynoso, Luis A.
Ciencias Informáticas
Metrics
Object Constraint Language (OCL)
title_short Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models
title_full Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models
title_fullStr Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models
title_full_unstemmed Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models
title_sort Towards a metric suite for OCL expressions expressed within UML/OCL models
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Reynoso, Luis A.
Genero Bocco, Marcela
Piattini Velthuis, Mario
author Reynoso, Luis A.
author_facet Reynoso, Luis A.
Genero Bocco, Marcela
Piattini Velthuis, Mario
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author2 Genero Bocco, Marcela
Piattini Velthuis, Mario
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Informáticas
Metrics
Object Constraint Language (OCL)
topic Ciencias Informáticas
Metrics
Object Constraint Language (OCL)
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv UML models quality is clearly a crucial issue that must be evaluated at the initial stages of object-oriented software development, in order to get software products with better quality. This fact is corroborated by the huge amount of metrics that have appeared in the literature related to the measurement of UML diagrams at a high level design stage. Most of these metrics are focused on the measurement of internal quality attributes such as structural complexity, coupling, size, etc. However, none of the proposed metrics take into account the added complexity involved when a UML model are complemented by expressions written in Object Constraint Language (OCL), that is a UML/OCL model. Due OCL is essential in building consistent and coherent platform-independent models we propose a metric suite for structural properties of OCL expressions. These metrics were proposed considering OCL concepts related to the "chunking" and "tracing" cognitive techniques. We believe that cognitive techniques affect the cognitive complexity, and by consequence the understandability and maintainability of expression of UML/OCL models. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to show how we defined these metrics in a methodological way, assuring thus their validity.
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description UML models quality is clearly a crucial issue that must be evaluated at the initial stages of object-oriented software development, in order to get software products with better quality. This fact is corroborated by the huge amount of metrics that have appeared in the literature related to the measurement of UML diagrams at a high level design stage. Most of these metrics are focused on the measurement of internal quality attributes such as structural complexity, coupling, size, etc. However, none of the proposed metrics take into account the added complexity involved when a UML model are complemented by expressions written in Object Constraint Language (OCL), that is a UML/OCL model. Due OCL is essential in building consistent and coherent platform-independent models we propose a metric suite for structural properties of OCL expressions. These metrics were proposed considering OCL concepts related to the "chunking" and "tracing" cognitive techniques. We believe that cognitive techniques affect the cognitive complexity, and by consequence the understandability and maintainability of expression of UML/OCL models. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to show how we defined these metrics in a methodological way, assuring thus their validity.
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