Author_Institution :
Centre for Res. in Comput., Open Univ., Milton Keynes, UK
Abstract :
UML has been described by some as “the lingua franca of software engineering”. Evidence from industry does not necessarily support such endorsements. How exactly is UML being used in industry - if it is? This paper presents a corpus of interviews with 50 professional software engineers in 50 companies and identifies 5 patterns of UML use.
Keywords :
Unified Modeling Language; software engineering; UML; lingua franca of software engineering; professional software engineers; Analytical models; Companies; Context; Industries; Interviews; Software; Unified modeling language; UML; empirical studies; notation; software design; software development;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering (ICSE), 2013 35th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3073-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606618
