Detailed Information on Publication Record
2019
Mistakes in UML Diagrams: Analysis of Student Projects in a Software Engineering Course
CHREN, Stanislav, Barbora BÜHNOVÁ, Martin MACÁK, Lukáš DAUBNER, Bruno ROSSI et. al.Basic information
Original name
Mistakes in UML Diagrams: Analysis of Student Projects in a Software Engineering Course
Authors
CHREN, Stanislav (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Barbora BÜHNOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Martin MACÁK (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Lukáš DAUBNER (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Bruno ROSSI (380 Italy, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Piscataway, NJ, USA, Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training, p. 100-109, 10 pp. 2019
Publisher
IEEE Press
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Stať ve sborníku
Field of Study
10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences
Country of publisher
United States of America
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Publication form
electronic version available online
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14330/19:00109059
Organization unit
Faculty of Informatics
ISBN
978-1-7281-1000-4
UT WoS
000570746000011
Keywords in English
Software Engineering; Unified Modelling Language; Common Mistakes; Software Engineering Course
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 20/3/2020 01:24, RNDr. Stanislav Chren, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
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.
Links
MUNI/A/1040/2018, interní kód MU |
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MUNI/A/1213/2017, interní kód MU |
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