Goff, Roger Allen2014-03-142014-03-141987-06-15etd-11142012-040332http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45686For many years the software engineering community has been attacking the software reliability problem on two fronts. First via design methodologies, languages and tools as a precheck on quality and second by measuring the quality of produced software as a postcheck. This research attempts to unify the approach to creating reliable software by providing the ability to measure the quality of a design prior to its implementation. Also presented is a comparison of a graphical and a textual design language in an effort to support cognitive science research findings that the human brain works more effectively in images than in text.x, 249 leavesBTDapplication/pdfIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1987.G633Computer graphicsComputer programsSoftware maintenanceThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11142012-040332/