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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

What Are the Used UML Diagram Constructs? A Document and Tool Analysis Study Covering Activity and Use Case Diagrams

Authors : Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi

Published in: Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

UML offers a very large set of constructs for each of its diagram types, however many of them seem scarcely used or even their existence is not known. Here, we decided to present a precise view of the usage levels of the constructs of activity and use case diagrams by means of a document and tool analysis study, covering preliminarily: books, courses, tutorials, and tools about UML. Results of the study show that, among the 47 activity diagrams constructs, a large majority of them seem to be scarcely used, while, only nine result widely used, whereas only two of the nine constructs of the use case diagrams seem scarcely used. This work is part of a larger project aimed at investigating the usage level of the UML diagrams and their constructs, also by means of a personal opinion survey intended for UML users.

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Footnotes
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A derived construct may be replaced by a combination of other constructs.
 
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It attempts to form a reliable consensus of a group of experts in specialized areas.
 
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This surprising result, since it is not possible to connect an object node to other nodes without using the object flow, is due to the fact that in some courses the classification of the arcs in activity diagrams in control and object flow was not mentioned.
 
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Metadata
Title
What Are the Used UML Diagram Constructs? A Document and Tool Analysis Study Covering Activity and Use Case Diagrams
Authors
Gianna Reggio
Maurizio Leotta
Filippo Ricca
Diego Clerissi
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25155-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-25156-1

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_5

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