A Survey on the Use of UML in the Brazilian Industry
A Survey on the Use of UML in the Brazilian Industry
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巴西工业中 UML 使用情况调查
DOI：
10.1145/3474624.3474632
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发表时间：
2021
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通讯作者：
Bruno Carreiro da Silva
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作者：
E. Junior;Kleinner Farias;Bruno Carreiro da Silva
尽管UML建模在过去十年中已经在巴西工业中使用，但对最终影响UML在现实世界项目中使用的因素、专业人员的看法和实践知之甚少。本文，因此，报告的探索性调查，重点调查如何在巴西软件行业的实践中使用UML。来自180家信息技术公司的314名从业者回答了一份关于UML模型的使用影响因素、使用难度和频率、感知收益和采用预防上下文因素的在线问卷。此外，20名从业人员参加了半结构化访谈。结果表明，参与者认识到UML模型的有用性，例如，允许对企业应用程序之间的集成的更好的理解。然而，74.8%的参与者没有使用UML模型，原因包括持续交付实践、时间限制、缺乏建模知识、公司文化以及保持模型更新和同步的困难。
Although UML modeling has been used in the Brazilian industry in the last decade, little is known about the factors, perceptions of professionals and practices that end up affecting the UML use in real-world projects. This paper, therefore, reports on an exploratory survey focused on investigating how UML is used in practice in the Brazilian software industry. In total, 314 practitioners from 180 information technology companies answered an online questionnaire about the usage-affecting factors, difficulty and frequency of use, perceived benefits, and adoption-preventi ng contextual factors of UML models. Moreover, 20 practitioners participated in a semi-structured interview. The results show that the participants recognize the usefulness of the UML models, e.g., allowing an improved understanding of the integration among enterprise applications. However, 74.8% of the participants did not use UML models due to some factors such as continuous delivery practices, time constraints, lack of knowledge about modeling, company culture, and the ever-present difficulty of keeping the models updated and synchronized.