TY - CONF A1 - Reuter, Rebecca A1 - Stark, Theresa A1 - Sedelmaier, Yvonne A1 - Landes, Dieter A1 - Mottok, Jürgen A1 - Wolff, Christian T1 - Insights in Students’ Problems during UML Modeling T2 - 2020 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON): Proceedings N2 - UML (Unified Modeling Language) is the current de facto as well as de jure standard (ISO/IEC 19505:2012) notation to visualize models in software development. UML provides essential guidelines and rules to visualize and understand complex software systems. This is the reason why it has become part of curricula for software engineering courses at many universities worldwide. It is well known, however, that UML is hard to grasp for novices, mainly due to its complexity. In order to tackle the problem of teaching UML to novice students appropriately, it is inevitable to understand their needs and problems much better than we do now. This paper presents empirical insights into students' problems when developing common UML diagrams. Identified problems are generalized, giving rise to a problem catalogue that is derived from our empirical findings, thus establishing a basis for addressing these problems through focused learning arrangements. KW - UML KW - UML problems KW - software engineering KW - higher education KW - visual notation Y1 - 2021 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1016 SP - 592 EP - 600 ER -