@inproceedings{3fbd4cfd769c4bb8b7b9ee715f8236ed,
title = "An experimental evaluation of quality guidelines on the maintainability of object-oriented design documents",
abstract = "This paperpresents a controlled experimentfocusing on the impact of applying quality design principles such as the ones provided by Coad and Yourdon on the maintainability of object-oriented design documents. Results, which repeat thefindings of a previous study; strongly suggest that such design principles have a benejicial eflect on the maintainability of object-oriented design documents. It is argued that object-oriented design documents are sensitive to poor design practices because the cognitive complexity introduced becomes increasingly unmanageable. However; as our ability to generalise these results is limited, they should be considered as preliminaq\ i.e., it is very likely that they can only be generalised to programmers with little object-oriented training and programming experience. Such programmers can, however; be commonly found on maintenance projects. As well as additional research, external replications of this study are required to confirm the results and achieve conjdence in these findings.",
keywords = "Design documents, Experiment, Maintainability, Object-oriented, Replication",
author = "Briand, {Lionel C.} and Christian Bunse and Daly, {John W.}",
year = "1997",
month = oct,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/266399.266401",
language = "English",
series = "Papers Presented at the 7th Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, ESP 1997",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
pages = "1--19",
editor = "Jean Scholtz and Susan Wiedenbeck",
booktitle = "Papers Presented at the 7th Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, ESP 1997",
note = "7th Workshop on Empirical Studies of Programmers, ESP 1997 ; Conference date: 24-10-1997",
}