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@article {EichelbergerSchmid09a,
author={Holger Eichelberger and Klaus Schmid},
title={Guidelines on the Aesthetic Quality of UML Class Diagrams},
journal={Information and Software Technology},
number={12},
volume={51},
year={2009},
pages={1686-1698},
doi={10.1016/j.infsof.2009.04.008},
abstract={In the past, formatting guidelines have proved to be a successful method to improve the readability of source code. With the increasing success of visual specification languages such as UML for model-driven software engineering visual guidelines are needed to standardize the presentation and the exchange of modeling diagrams with respect to human communication, understandability and readability. In this article, we introduce a new and encompassing taxonomy of visual guidelines capturing the aestheticquality of UMLclassdiagrams. We propose these guidelines as a framework to improve the aestheticquality and thus the understandability of UMLclassdiagrams. To validate this claim, we describe in detail a controlled experiment carried out as a pilot study to gather preliminary insights on the effects of some of the guideline rules on the understandability of UMLclassdiagrams.}
}