Henry, Sallie M.Goff, Roger2013-06-192013-06-191988http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19374For 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. A comparison of a graphical and a textual design language is presented in an effort to support research findings that the human brain works more effectively in images than in text.application/pdfenIn CopyrightTechnical reportTR-88-20http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000105/01/TR-88-20.pdf