Mistakes in UML Diagrams: Analysis of Student Projects in a Software Engineering Course

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Mistakes in UML Diagrams: Analysis of Student Projects in a Software Engineering Course

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Mistakes in UML Diagrams: Analysis of Student Projects in a Software Engineering Course

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10200 - Computer and information sciences

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název statě ve sborníku

Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training

ISBN

9781728110004

ISSN

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e-ISSN

—

Počet stran výsledku

10

Strana od-do

100-109

Název nakladatele

IEEE Press

Místo vydání

Piscataway, NJ, USA

Místo konání akce

Montreal

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2019

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

000570746000011