Correlating UML and source code changes: A first exploration.
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780494272893
Description: Design is an important stage in the software development lifecycle which lays a foundation for future implementation. UML class diagrams are a standard language used to represent system design. In this paper, we present and implement metrics for quantifying the change between two successive versions of a UML class diagram. We also use the proposed measures in a case study to explore correlations between model changes and source code changes; the existence of such a correlation is necessary for achieving our future goal of using design changes as early predictors of source code change. The research data for the case study is derived from student projects and our results indicate an absence of a correlation in their data. However, we suspect that atypical aspects of the student projects are skewing the results and further experimentation on different subjects could shed more light on our hypotheses.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3188.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

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