Who Knows/Uses What of the UML: A Personal Opinion Survey

@inproceedings{Reggio2014WhoKW,
  title={Who Knows/Uses What of the UML: A Personal Opinion Survey},
  author={Gianna Reggio and Maurizio Leotta and Filippo Ricca},
  booktitle={MoDELS},
  year={2014}
}
UML is a comprehensive notation, offering a very large set of diagrams and constructs covering any possible modelling need. [] Key Result Here, we present some results about knowledge and usage of the UML diagrams by means of a personal opinion survey with 275 participants from both industry and academy, analysing also the influence of different factors: working environment (academia vs. industry), working role, seniority, education, and gender.
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