Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2008
Does the use of stereotypes improve the comprehension of UML sequence diagrams?
Marcela Genero Bocco, José Antonio Cruz Lemus, Danilo Caivano, Silvia Abrahao, Emilio Insfrán, José Antonio Carsí Arteaga
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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