Improving the quality of UML models in practice
Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Software engineering
Supporting task-oriented modeling using interactive UML views
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
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UML models describe the structure and behavior of existing or future software systems. In addition to the UML model, developers consult metrics and other attribute data for evaluation and analysis purposes. In hitherto techniques attribute data and structural data in the diagrams of the UML model is split in different representations. For the process of evaluation of a system the attribute data must be combined with the structural data. Geographical information systems (GIS) deploy visualization techniques to combine these different types of data. We propose a set of visualization techniques adopted from GIS to enrich UML models with attribute data. Advantages and examples of the visualizations are disussed, as well as limitations to the applicability. Especially the technique where colors represent attribute values of elements seems promising.