Directives of Communicability for Software Models

This technical report presents the Directives of Communicability (DCs). The DCs were proposed to improve the quality of communication among software development team members. The development of DCs was based on Grice’s Cooperative Principle and Semiotic Engineering, theories that investigate different ways of communication. Furthermore, UML class diagrams and activity diagrams produced by two software engineers: one software engineer produced a diagram with the support of the DCs, while the other produced without the DCs. These diagrams were used in a study aimed to evaluate the consumption of software models produced with the DCs.