Systematic Review of UML Diagramming Software Tools for Higher Education Software Engineering Courses

Yuting Lu; Cristina Alexandru

doi:10.1145/3610969.3611123

Systematic Review of UML Diagramming Software Tools for Higher Education Software Engineering Courses

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The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a set of graphical notations underpinned by a single meta-model that aid in the description and design of software systems. Learning to draw UML diagrams is an important objective of higher education (HE) software engineering (SE) courses. To this end, UML diagramming software tools can facilitate the application of the UML notation in drawing complex diagrams collaboratively between students. Numerous UML diagramming tools are available on the market nowadays, which makes it difficult for academics and students to choose the best tool for their needs, and no thorough evaluation of such tools for education is available. This project conducted a systematic review of UML diagramming tools that are freely available or available for a trial, from the point of view of meeting desirable diagramming and collaboration features for use in HE SE courses. This paper presents the methodology and results of this systematic review, before concluding on the best tools overall and for different features, and proposing a set of guidelines for the design of better UML diagramming tools for HE SE courses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UKICER '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research
Publisher	ACM Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-7
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9798400708763
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611123
Publication status	Published - 25 Sept 2023
Event	United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research conference- UKICER 2023 - Swansea, United Kingdom Duration: 7 Sept 2023 → 8 Sept 2023 https://www.ukicer.com/

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Conference	United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research conference- UKICER 2023
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Swansea
Period	7/09/23 → 8/09/23
Internet address	https://www.ukicer.com/

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higher education
UML diagramming tools
software engineering
systematic review

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Lu, Y & Alexandru, C 2023, Systematic Review of UML Diagramming Software Tools for Higher Education Software Engineering Courses. in UKICER '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research., 4, ACM Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-7, United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research conference- UKICER 2023, Swansea, United Kingdom, 7/09/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610969.3611123

Systematic Review of UML Diagramming Software Tools for Higher Education Software Engineering Courses. / Lu, Yuting; Alexandru, Cristina.
UKICER '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on United Kingdom & Ireland Computing Education Research. ACM Association for Computing Machinery, 2023. p. 1-7 4.

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