Paper Info
Title
What are the used activity diagram constructs? a survey
Abstract
UML Activity diagrams offer a very large set of constructs, however many of them seem scarcely used or even their existence is not known. Here, we present a precise view of the usage levels of these constructs by means of a survey, covering preliminarily books, courses, tutorials, and tools about UML. Results show that, among the 47 Activity diagrams constructs, a large majority of them seem to be scarcely used, while, only nine result widely 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. UML is really a huge notation, and as consequence, on one hand, it is difficult and time consuming to master it, and on the other hand, people tend, naturally, to consider only a part of it; by means of this empirical study we want to assess what are the most/less used UML diagrams/constructs.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development
Unified Modeling Language,UML activity diagrams,UML constructs,Unified Modelling Language,activity diagram constructs,Empirical Study,Survey,UML Usage
Field
DocType
ISBN
Programming language,UML tool,Systems engineering,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Communication diagram,Applications of UML,Object Constraint Language,Shlaer–Mellor method,Class diagram,UML state machine,Software engineering,Activity diagram
Conference
978-9-8975-8065-9
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gianna Reggio180086.77
Maurizio Leotta226232.08
Filippo Ricca31788124.62
Diego Clerissi4708.58