Current practices in the use of UML

  • Authors:
  • Brian Dobing;Jeffrey Parsons

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Management, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada;Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NF, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ER'05 Proceedings of the 24th international conference on Perspectives in Conceptual Modeling
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Despite widespread interest in the Unified Modeling Language (UML), there is little evidence about the extent and nature of UML use. This paper reports results of a survey of UML use by practitioners. Results indicate varying levels of use, and perceived usefulness, of different UML diagrams. In addition, we found significant involvement of non-IT professionals in the development of UML diagrams. An understanding of the range of current practices is an important foundation for determining “best practices.”