An experimental scrutiny of visual design modelling: VCL up against UML+OCL
- Submitting institution
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Birmingham City University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 11Z_OP_D2021
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1007/s10664-019-09784-9
- Title of journal
- Empirical Software Engineering
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- First page
- 1205
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1382-3256
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Citation count
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This paper compares the Visual Contract Language (VCL) against the UML and OCL standards using a controlled experiment. This is the first empirical demonstration of the benefits of a fully graphical language for software design modelling, which had so far an interesting impact in education --- VCL was taught in module Software Design of the BSc. in Computer Science at Birmingham City University (BCU), it has been used in 22 BCU undergraduate dissertations, 3 masters dissertations (BCU and University of Luxembourg) ---, and inspired the MaRCo research project which was granted funding by the Luxembourg research council.
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- Non-English
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