Practices and Perceptions of UML Use in Open Source Projects

Ho-Quang, Truong; Hebig, Regina; Robles, Gregório; Chaudron, Michel R. V.; Fernández, Miguel Angel Castro

doi:10.1109/icse-seip.2017.28

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“…The communication benefits to explicit software design are also well understood: architectural decisions that developers make become well-documented, reducing information loss and potential misinterpretation during system implementation, and facilitating communication among team members and the onboarding of new developers [2]. Both commercial [2] and open-source software developers [3] alike recognize these potential benefits.…”

Section: Does Uml Modeling Associate With Lower Defect Proneness?: a mentioning

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“…Among modeling languages, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is often viewed as de-facto standard for describing the design of software system using diagrams [3]. In practice, UML is often used in a loose/informal manner (not adhering stricly to the standard [4]).…”

Section: Does Uml Modeling Associate With Lower Defect Proneness?: a mentioning

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“…Our classifier takes as input the title and the body of an issue, and produces one of two labels, bug or not bug. 3 To this end, we started with one author coding randomly sampled issues as bug or not bug, until labelling 100 of each; unclear cases were discussed between two authors, and subsequently resolved. After manual data labelling, we created 20 random splits of our labelled data containing two equally sized train and test sets, trained the classifier on the train set, and computed the accuracy on the test set; each split preserved the balanced nature of the data, i.e., the train and test sets contained 50 bug and 50 not bug issues each.…”

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Does UML Modeling Associate with Lower Defect Proneness?: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation

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Does UML Modeling Associate with Lower Defect Proneness?: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation

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2019 IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)

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“…As these studies require a set of projects and models with specific characteristics, the dataset had to be curated. For example, when studying the practices and perception of UML use, we were interested in the projects where we could observe long-term use of UML models and collaboration between contributors [165]. To obtain these projects, we applied some filters on the number of contributors, number of commits and active time-span.…”

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An Automated Approach for Classifying Reverse-Engineered and Forward-Engineered UML Class Diagrams

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Ho-Quang

Chaudron

2018

2018 44th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)

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Context: In modern software development, software modeling is considered to be an essential part of the software architecture and design activities. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de facto standard for software modeling in industry. Surprisingly, there are only a few empirical studies on the practices and impacts of UML modeling in software development. This is mainly due to the lack of empirical data on real-life software systems that use UML modeling. Objective: This PhD thesis contributes to this matter by describing a method to build and curate a big corpus of open-source-software (OSS) projects that contain UML models. Subsequently, this thesis offers observations on the practices and impacts of using UML modeling in these OSS projects. Method: We combine techniques from repository mining and image classification in order to successfully identify more than 24.000 open source projects on GitHub that together contain more than 93.000 UML models. Machine learning techniques are also used to enrich the corpus with annotations. Finally, various empirical studies, including a case study, a user study, a large-scale survey and an experiment, have been carried out across this set of projects. Result: The results show that UML is generally perceived to be helpful to new contributors. The most important motivation for using UML seems to be to facilitate collaboration. In particular, teams use UML during communication and planning of joint implementation efforts. Our study also shows that the use of UML modeling has a positive impact on software quality, i.e. it correlates with lower defect proneness. Further, we find out that visualisation of design concepts, such as class role-stereotypes, helps developers to perform better in software comprehension tasks.

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“…The results of examination with an eye-tracker are also presented. Finally, in [3], the authors conduct a thorough research, posing important questions about the degree of adoption and the adequacy of UML diagrams to the code in open source projects. Of note is a relatively small percentage (about 1/3 of cases) where the UML model has been implemented in its entirety, without any changes.…”

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UML – a survey on technical university students in Lublin

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Ulidowski

Wrzos

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Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a commonly known OMG (Object Management Group) standard for designing software systems. However, practice shows that the usage of UML varies depending on the specificity of a software system and company. The authors decided to explore the perspective of students with experience in using UML by conducting a survey with them. Analysis of the data gathered revealed that they use UML diagrams as an additional help when developing software. The main risk turned out to be different diagram interpretations.

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Practices and Perceptions of UML Use in Open Source Projects

Cited by 30 publications

References 22 publications

Does UML Modeling Associate with Lower Defect Proneness?: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation

Does UML Modeling Associate with Lower Defect Proneness?: A Preliminary Empirical Investigation

An Automated Approach for Classifying Reverse-Engineered and Forward-Engineered UML Class Diagrams

UML – a survey on technical university students in Lublin

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