Mistakes in UML Diagrams: Analysis of Student Projects in a Software Engineering Course
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14330%2F19%3A00109059" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14330/19:00109059 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8802110" target="_blank" >https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8802110</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSE-SEET.2019.00019" target="_blank" >10.1109/ICSE-SEET.2019.00019</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mistakes in UML Diagrams: Analysis of Student Projects in a Software Engineering Course
Original language description
The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is being widely accepted as a standard modelling notation for visualizing software systems during design and development. UML has thus become part of many software engineering course curricula at universities worldwide, providing a recognized tool for practical training of students in understanding and visualizing software design. It is however common that students have difficulties in absorbing UML in its complexity, and often repeat the same mistakes that have been observed by course tutors in previous years. Having a catalogue of such mistakes could hence increase the effectiveness of both teaching and learning of UML diagrams. In this paper, we present such a catalogue, consisting of 146 types of mistakes in eight types of diagrams. As the main contribution of this study, we use this catalogue to guide the analysis of student projects within a software engineering course. In total, over 2,700 diagrams submitted over 12 weeks of a semester by 123 students were analysed to identify the frequency of mistakes (from the catalogue), correlations of the mistakes between different diagram types, correlation of the quality of student projects to exam results, student behaviour in terms of introducing and fixing the mistakes over time, and other interesting insights. The analysis is described together with its setup and execution, and all datasets and detailed guidebook to the catalogue of all mistakes is made available for download.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
10200 - Computer and information sciences
Result continuities
Project
—
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training
ISBN
9781728110004
ISSN
—
e-ISSN
—
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
100-109
Publisher name
IEEE Press
Place of publication
Piscataway, NJ, USA
Event location
Montreal
Event date
Jan 1, 2019
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
UT code for WoS article
000570746000011