As you probably know if you’re keeping in touch with the software engineering research community, there has been plenty of research on conceptual modeling in recent years. Most of it focuses on the creation, refinement, and formalization of modeling languages (UML, for instance). But the question of how do software developers truly use diagrams and [...]
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November 13, 2006
UML usage survey
The May 2006 issue of the Communications of the ACM has a survey (subscription or payment required) by Brian Dobing and Jeffrey Parsons on the usage of UML in software development projects. Most participants were contacted through the OMG, the group that defines UML, so the numbers Dobing and Parsons obtained come mostly from hard-core [...]
