G: References

[AGE95]

F. Abreu, M. Goulao, R. Esteves, "Toward the Design Quality Evaluation of Object-Oriented Software Systems", 5th International Conference on Software Quality, Austin, Texas, October 1995.

[Amb03]

S. Ambler, "The Elements of UML Style", Cambridge University Press, 2003.
A comprehensive collection of style guidelines for the UML. Also available online at www.agilemodeling.com/style

[BEGR00]

S, Benlarbi, K. El Emam, N. Goel, S. Rai, "Thresholds for Object-Oriented Measures", Proceedings of ISSRE2000, 24-37, 2000.

[BDM97]

Briand, Devanbu, Melo, "An Investigation into coupling measures for object-oriented designs", Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE '97, Boston, 412-421, 1997.

[BMM98]

W. Brown, R. Malveau, H, McCormick, T Mowbray, "AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crises", Wiley, 1998.

[BMW02]

L. Briand, W. Melo, J. Wuest, "Assessing the Applicability of Fault-Proneness Models Across Object-Oriented Software Projects", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 28 (7), 706-720, 2002.
Also available from http://www.sdmetrics.com/Refs.html

[BW02]

L. Briand, J. Wuest, "Empirical Studies of Quality Models in Object-Oriented Systems", Advances in Computers Vol. 59, 97-166, 2002.
Also available from http://www.sdmetrics.com/Refs.html

[BWDP00]

L. Briand, J. Wuest, J. Daly, V. Porter, "A Comprehensive Empirical Validation of Product Measures for Object-Oriented Systems". Journal of Systems and Software 51, p. 245-273, 2000.
Also available from http://www.sdmetrics.com/Refs.html

[BWL01]

L. Briand, J. Wuest, H. Lounis, "Replicated Case Studies for Investigating Quality Factors in Object-Oriented Designs, Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal, Vol 6, No 1, 11-58, 2001.
Also available from http://www.sdmetrics.com/Refs.html

[CK94]

S. Chidamber, C. Kemerer, "A Metrics Suite for Object-Oriented Design", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 20 (6), 476-493, 1994.

[CK98]

S. Chidamber, D. Darcy, C. Kemerer, "Managerial use of Metrics for Object-Oriented Software: An Exploratory Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 24 (8), 629-639, 1998.

[Fow99]

M. Fowler, "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code", Addison Wesley, 1999.

[FP96]

N. Fenton, S. Pfleeger, "Software Metrics: A Practical and Rigorous Approach". International Thompson Computer Press, 1996.

[Fra03]

D. Frankel, "Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing", Wiley, 2003.

[ISO9126]

ISO/IEC FCD 9126-1.2, "Information Technology - Software Product. Quality- Part 1: Quality Model", 1998.

[JRH04]

M. Jeckle, C. Rupp, J. Hahn, B. Zengler, S. Queins, "UML 2 glasklar", Carl Hanser Verlag, 2004.

[Lan03]

C. Lange, "Empirical Investigations in Software Architecture Completeness", Master's Thesis, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Technical University Eindhoven, 2003.

[LH93]

W. Li, S. Henry, "Object-Oriented Metrics that Predict Maintainability", J. Systems and Software, 23 (2), 111-122, 1993.

[LC94]

A. Lake, C. Cook, "Use of factor analysis to develop OOP software complexity metrics", Proc. 6th Annual Oregon Workshop on Software Metrics, Silver Falls, Oregon, April 1994.

[LK94]

M. Lorenz, J. Kidd, "Object-oriented Software Metrics", Prentice Hall, 1994.

[LLW95]

Y. Lee, B. Liang, S. Wu, F. Wang, "Measuring Coupling and Cohesion of an Object-Oriented Program Based On Information Flow", Proc. International Conference on Software Quality (ICSQ '95), 81-90, 1995.

[Mar03]

R. Martin, "Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices", Prentice Hall, 2003.

[McC76]

T. McCabe, "A Complexity Measure", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2 (12), 308-320, 1976.

[MGP03]

D. Miranda, M. Genero, M. Piattini, "Empirical validation of metrics for UML statechart diagrams", 5th Internation Conference on Enterprise Informations Systems (ICEIS03), 1, p. 87-95, 2003.

[NP98]

P. Nesi, T. Querci, "Effort estimation and prediction of object-oriented systems", Journal of Systems and Software 42, p. 89-102, 1998.

[Oes04]

Bernd Oesterreich, "Die UML 2.0 Kurzreferenz fuer die Praxis", Oldenbourg Verlag, 2004.

[OMG03]

Object Management Group, "OMG Unified Modeling Language Specification", Version 1.5, OMG Adopted Formal Specification formal/03-03-01, 2003.

[OMG05]

Object Management Group, "UML 2.0 Superstructure Specification", OMG Adopted Formal Specification formal/05-07-04, 2005.

[OMG10]

Object Management Group, "OMG Systems Modeling Language", Version 1.2, OMG Document Number formal/2010-06-02, 2010.

[Rie96]

A. Riel, "Object-Oriented Design Heuristics", Addison Wesley, 1996.

[RVR04]

A. Ramirez, P. Vanpeperstraete, A. Rueckert, K. Odutola, J. Bennett, L. Tolke, M. van der Wulp, "ArgoUML User Manual v0.16", 2004.
Available from http://argouml.tigris.org.

[TSM92]

D. Tegarden, S. Sheetz, D. Monarchi, "The Effectiveness of Traditional Software Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems", in: J. Nunamaker Jr, R. Sprague (eds.), Proceedings of the 25th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Vol. IV, IEEE Computer Society Press, 359-368, Jan. 1992.