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Insights in Students’ Problems during UML Modeling

  • 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.

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Author:Rebecca Reuter, Theresa Stark, Yvonne Sedelmaier, Dieter Landes, Jürgen MottokORCiDGND, Christian Wolff
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON45650.2020.9125110
Parent Title (English):2020 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON): Proceedings
Document Type:conference proceeding (article)
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2020
Release Date:2021/02/19
Tag:UML; UML problems; higher education; software engineering; visual notation
First Page:592
Last Page:600
Institutes:Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik
Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik / Laboratory for Safe and Secure Systems (LAS3)
Begutachtungsstatus:peer-reviewed
research focus:Digitalisierung
Licence (German):Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG