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A Survey of UML Tools

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Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a modeling language widely used in the field of software engineering. It is a standard to visualize the design of a system structurally and behaviorally. UML tools are software tools used to create UML diagrams, perform model and diagram interchange, model transformation, code generation, reverse engineering and round-trip engineering, There are many free UML tools available to be downloaded in the internet. This paper serves as a survey for ten UML tools and gives recommendation to users on which UML tools to be used in different situations. The main contribution of the paper is to compare the ten up to date UML tools in several aspects.

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Acknowledgements

We hereby express our gratitude to the university in providing a platform for our research. We are also grateful for Malaysia’s Department of Higher Education in providing the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme for our research. We would also like to show appreciation to all the previous researchers for their publications which helped a lot in our research for this paper.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 26300, Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia

    Weng Jie Thong

  2. IBM Centre of Excellence, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, 26300, Gambang, Kuantan, Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia

    Mohamed Ariff Ameedeen

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Correspondence to Mohamed Ariff Ameedeen .

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  1. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia

    Jemal H. Abawajy

  2. Department of Communication Technology and Network, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

    Mohamed Othman

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

    Rozaida Ghazali

  4. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

    Mustafa Mat Deris

  5. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia, Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia

    Hairulnizam Mahdin

  6. Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Tutut Herawan

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Thong, W.J., Ameedeen, M.A. (2019). A Survey of UML Tools. In: Abawajy, J., Othman, M., Ghazali, R., Deris, M., Mahdin, H., Herawan, T. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering 2015 (DaEng-2015) . Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 520. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1799-6_7

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