Empirical Evaluation of a Textual Approach to Database Design in a Modeling Tool

Jonnathan Lopes, Maicon Bernardino, Fábio Basso, Elder Rodrigues

2021

Abstract

This article reports an empirical assessment study conducted with 27 subjects intended to verify the effort (time spent), precision, recall, F-Measure of a proposed tool based on a textual approach (ERtext), thereby a study developed for comparative reasons of ERtext with a tool based on graphical approach: thebrModelo. The results are: 1) less effort is associated with the graphical approach and that ERtext, and 2) regarding the model quality, brModelo have similar performances in both approaches. Since the results shows no considerable statistical differences among the two design approaches, we conclude that the usage of a textual approach is feasible, thus ERtext is a good tool alternative in the context of conceptual database modeling.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lopes J., Bernardino M., Basso F. and Rodrigues E. (2021). Empirical Evaluation of a Textual Approach to Database Design in a Modeling Tool. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-509-8, pages 208-215. DOI: 10.5220/0010450602080215

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis21,
author={Jonnathan Lopes and Maicon Bernardino and Fábio Basso and Elder Rodrigues},
title={Empirical Evaluation of a Textual Approach to Database Design in a Modeling Tool},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2021},
pages={208-215},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010450602080215},
isbn={978-989-758-509-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - Empirical Evaluation of a Textual Approach to Database Design in a Modeling Tool
SN - 978-989-758-509-8
AU - Lopes J.
AU - Bernardino M.
AU - Basso F.
AU - Rodrigues E.
PY - 2021
SP - 208
EP - 215
DO - 10.5220/0010450602080215