What are the used Activity Diagram Constructs? - A Survey

Gianna Reggio, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca, Diego Clerissi

2014

Abstract

UML Activity diagrams offer a very large set of constructs, however many of them seem scarcely used or even their existence is not known. Here, we present a precise view of the usage levels of these constructs by means of a survey, covering preliminarily books, courses, tutorials, and tools about UML. Results show that, among the 47 Activity diagrams constructs, a large majority of them seem to be scarcely used, while, only nine result widely used. This work is part of a larger project aimed at investigating the usage level of the UML diagrams and their constructs, also by means of a personal opinion survey intended for UML users. UML is really a huge notation, and as consequence, on one hand, it is difficult and time consuming to master it, and on the other hand, people tend, naturally, to consider only a part of it; by means of this empirical study we want to assess what are the most/less used UML diagrams/constructs.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Reggio G., Leotta M., Ricca F. and Clerissi D. (2014). What are the used Activity Diagram Constructs? - A Survey . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-007-9, pages 87-98. DOI: 10.5220/0004712000870098

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward14,
author={Gianna Reggio and Maurizio Leotta and Filippo Ricca and Diego Clerissi},
title={What are the used Activity Diagram Constructs? - A Survey},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2014},
pages={87-98},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004712000870098},
isbn={978-989-758-007-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - What are the used Activity Diagram Constructs? - A Survey
SN - 978-989-758-007-9
AU - Reggio G.
AU - Leotta M.
AU - Ricca F.
AU - Clerissi D.
PY - 2014
SP - 87
EP - 98
DO - 10.5220/0004712000870098