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Does the use of stereotypes improve the comprehension of UML sequence diagrams?

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This paper reports on a controlled experiment that investigates the influence of stereotypes in UML sequence diagrams. The comprehension of UML sequence diagrams with and without stereotypes is analyzed from three different perspectives: semantic comprehension, retention and transfer. The experiment was carried out with 77 undergraduate students of Computer Science from the University of Bari in Italy. The results obtained show a slight tendency in favor of the use of stereotypes in facilitating the comprehension of UML sequence diagrams. Further replications are needed to obtain more conclusive results.

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ESEM '08: Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
October 2008
374 pages
ISBN:9781595939715
DOI:10.1145/1414004
  • General Chair:
  • Dieter Rombach,
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  • Jürgen Münch
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  1. comprehension
  2. controlled experiment
  3. stereotypes
  4. uml sequence diagrams
  5. understandability

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