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Structured Flowcharts outperform pseudocode
Greg pointed me to this old (1989) IEEE Software article: Structured flowcharts outperform pseudocode: an experimental comparison by David A. Scanlan. In the paper the author empirically shows that significantly less time is required to comprehend algorithms represented as flowcharts. He ended up saying “I am not suggesting that we should all retrieve our flowchart
Lyrical flowcharts
LucidChart (one of the most popular web-based modeling tools) is creating youtube videos showing popular songs modeled as flowcharts. As an example here you are the “Hey Jude” one Sure, we could discuss whehter flowcharts are the best way to model a song but let’s not be picky, anything that promotes modeling deserves recognition! If
101companies: One system – more than 100 alternative software implementations
Ralf Lämmel’s visit is the perfect excuse to blog about his great project: 101 companies, created together with Thomas Schmorleiz and Andrei Varanovich. The idea behind 101 companies is simple, let’s try to have as many implementations as possible for the same scenario, a simple Human Resource Management System (the so-called 101companies System) so that
Model Interchange Test Case Results Available
My dream: “Model once open everywhere” seems now a little bit closer. The Model Interchange Working Group (MIWG) has released a test suite (comprising 16 UML and/or SysML test models covering around 60% of the full UML specification) to “demonstrate model interchange among MOF-based tools that implement modeling languages such as UML, SysML and UPDM
Cloning in DSLs: Experiments with OCL
Robert Tairas explains our work on applying cloning techniques to DSLs (you can also read the full paper , recently presented at the SLE conference). Enter Robert: Code clones represent similar fragments of source code, where the similarity of these clones can vary ranging from clones that are exactly the same syntactically to clones that
Top 5 posts March 2011
Let’s start the week reviewing the five most popular blog entries IN March 2011 (according TO your votes: NUMBER OF votes=NUMBER OF clicks ON the post). Competition was tough, entries needed TO be over (OR very CLOSE TO) 1000 visits TO appear IN the list.
The top 5 popular entries were, IN this order:
Modeling effectively : insights from empirical studies – Upcoming talk
Probably this title of this talk should be “the proof you all been waiting for”! Next Thursday, March 31st. in Nantes, Michel Chaudron will give the talk “Modeling effectively : insights from empirical studies” as part of the Jeudi des Modèles series (you can register here ). What is the state of UML modeling in
