Published in

Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement - ESEM '08

DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414059

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Does the Use of Stereotypes Improve the Comprehension of UML Sequence Diagrams?

Proceedings article published in 2008 by Marcela Genero, José A. Cruz Lemus, Danilo Caivano, Silvia Abrahão ORCID, José Angel Carsí, E. Insfran J. A. Carsí
This paper was not found in any repository, but could be made available legally by the author.
This paper was not found in any repository, but could be made available legally by the author.

Full text: Unavailable

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Upload
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Upload
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Policy details
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

This paper reports on a controlled experiment that investigates the influence of stereotypes in UML sequence diagrams. The comprehension of UML sequence diagrams with and without stereotypes is analyzed from three different perspectives: semantic comprehension, retention and transfer. The experiment was carried out with 77 undergraduate students of Computer Science from the University of Bari in Italy. The results obtained show a slight tendency in favor of the use of stereotypes in facilitating the comprehension of UML sequence diagrams. Further replications are needed to obtain more conclusive results.