Title :
Statechart Features and Pre-Release Defects in Software Maintenance
Author :
Heidenberg, Jeanette ; Nåls, Andreas ; Porres, Ivan
Author_Institution :
OY L M Ericsson Ab, Jorvas
Abstract :
Statecharts is a design notation to model reactive systems that is part of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and it is commonly used in the automotive and telecommunication software industry. In this paper we present a study of how the use of some statechart features correlate to the number of pre-release defects in the maintenance of large systems. We discuss possible causes for these correlations and provide some advice to both UML practitioners and to designers of new visual design languages.
Keywords :
Unified Modeling Language; software maintenance; UML; Unified Modeling Language; model reactive systems; prerelease defects; software maintenance; statechart features; visual design languages; Automotive engineering; Communication industry; Computer industry; Information technology; Message service; Protocols; Software maintenance; Telecommunication services; Telephony; Unified modeling language;
Conference_Titel :
Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2007. VL/HCC 2007. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Coeur d´Alene, ID
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2987-5
DOI :
10.1109/VLHCC.2007.20
