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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is now the de-facto standard for the analysis and design of object-oriented software systems. There is a general consensus among researchers and practitioners that the UML could have a stronger semantic content. However, even the semantics of the UML, as described for example as well-formedness rules in the UML standard documentation, is not very well-known to many practitioners. As a result, practitioners often perceive the UML merely as a graphic tool. This paper discusses the apprenticeship of the UML semantics and presents a pedagogical method to help students overcome their limited view of the UML language as merely a set of annotated boxes and lines and to allow them to discover UML semantics.
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Labiche, Y. (2009). The UML Is More Than Boxes and Lines. In: Chaudron, M.R.V. (eds) Models in Software Engineering. MODELS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5421. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01648-6_39
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