TY - GEN
T1 - On the UML use in the brazilian industry
T2 - 30th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 2018
AU - Farias, Kleinner
AU - Gonçales, Lucian
AU - Bischoff, Vinicius
AU - Da Silval, Bruno
AU - Guimarães, Everton
AU - Nogle, Jacob
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Context: The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the standard for modeling software. Several surveys on the UML usage have been proposed in recent years. However, none of them explores the UML use in specific regional scope, and thus little is known about the practices and perceptions of UML use from the perspective of practitioners in the Brazilian industry. Objective: This paper reports on a survey focused on identifying the state-of-The-practice of the Brazilian industry for what concerns the UML usage in real-world settings. Method: In total, 222 practitioners from 140 different Information Technology companies have answered an on-line (or printed) questionnaire concerning their UML use experiences, the difficulty in adopting UML and what should be done to increase the UML adoption in practice. Result: The results show that: (1) 60 participants (28.2%) have used UML in their daily work, while 73.2% have not; (2) 55.41% of the surveyed participants did not disagree with the statement that UML is the "lingua franca" in software modeling; (3) 61.26% reported to find that the automatic creation of UML diagrams to represent a big picture of the system under development would be useful to boost UML use. Conclusion: The UML is not often used in the work life of participants. In addition, no relationship was identified between the use of UML and the participant company being a software factory.
AB - Context: The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the standard for modeling software. Several surveys on the UML usage have been proposed in recent years. However, none of them explores the UML use in specific regional scope, and thus little is known about the practices and perceptions of UML use from the perspective of practitioners in the Brazilian industry. Objective: This paper reports on a survey focused on identifying the state-of-The-practice of the Brazilian industry for what concerns the UML usage in real-world settings. Method: In total, 222 practitioners from 140 different Information Technology companies have answered an on-line (or printed) questionnaire concerning their UML use experiences, the difficulty in adopting UML and what should be done to increase the UML adoption in practice. Result: The results show that: (1) 60 participants (28.2%) have used UML in their daily work, while 73.2% have not; (2) 55.41% of the surveyed participants did not disagree with the statement that UML is the "lingua franca" in software modeling; (3) 61.26% reported to find that the automatic creation of UML diagrams to represent a big picture of the system under development would be useful to boost UML use. Conclusion: The UML is not often used in the work life of participants. In addition, no relationship was identified between the use of UML and the participant company being a software factory.
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U2 - 10.18293/SEKE2018-183
DO - 10.18293/SEKE2018-183
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056873013
T3 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE
SP - 372
EP - 375
BT - Proceedings - SEKE 2018
PB - Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School
Y2 - 1 July 2018 through 3 July 2018
ER -