Title
What Are the Used UML Diagram Constructs? A Document and Tool Analysis Study Covering Activity and Use Case Diagrams.
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_5
Communications in Computer and Information Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
UML usage,Survey,Empirical study
Programming language,Systems engineering,UML tool,Unified Modeling Language,Computer science,Use Case Diagram,Activity diagram,Diagram,Communication diagram,Applications of UML,Class diagram
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
506
1865-0929
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gianna Reggio180086.77
Maurizio Leotta226232.08
Filippo Ricca31788124.62
Diego Clerissi4708.58