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ICSE 2019
Sat 25 - Fri 31 May 2019 Montreal, QC, Canada
Thu 30 May 2019 11:46 - 12:01 at St-Paul / Ste-Catherine - SE Instructional Strategies Chair(s): Timothy Lethbridge

The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is being widely accepted as a standard modelling notation for visualizing software systems during design and development. UML has thus become part of many software engineering course curricula at universities worldwide, providing a recognized tool for practical training of students in understanding and visualizing software design. It is however common that students have difficulties in absorbing UML in its complexity, and often repeat the same mistakes that have been observed by course tutors in previous years. Having a catalogue of such mistakes could hence increase the effectiveness of both teaching and learning of UML diagrams. In this paper, we present such a catalogue, consisting of 146 types of mistakes in eight types of diagrams. As the main contribution of this study, we use this catalogue to guide the analysis of student projects within a software engineering course. In total, over 2,700 diagrams submitted over 12 weeks of a semester by 123 students were analysed to identify the frequency of mistakes (from the catalogue), correlations of the mistakes between different diagram types, correlation of the quality of student projects to exam results, student behaviour in terms of introducing and fixing the mistakes over time, and other interesting insights. The analysis is described together with its setup and execution, and all datasets and detailed guidebook to the catalogue of all mistakes is made available for download.

Thu 30 May

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11:00 - 12:30
SE Instructional StrategiesSoftware Engineering Education and Training / Posters at St-Paul / Ste-Catherine
Chair(s): Timothy Lethbridge University of Ottawa
11:00
15m
Talk
The Case of the Fragmented ClassroomSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
William Billingsley University of New England
11:15
6m
Poster
Quantifying Patterns and Programming Strategies in Block-based Programming Environments
Posters
Max Kesselbacher University of Klagenfurt, Andreas Bollin University of Klagenfurt, Austria
11:21
15m
Talk
Linking Code Readability, Structure, and Comprehension among Novices: It's ComplicatedSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Eliane Wiese University of Utah, Anna Rafferty Carleton College, Armando Fox UC Berkeley
Pre-print
11:36
10m
Talk
FVT: A Fragmented Video Tutor for "Dubbing" Software Development TutorialsSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Chunyin Nong , Qiao Zhang Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75205, Liguo Huang Dept. of Computer Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 75205, Di Cui Xi'an Jiaotong University, Qinghua Zheng MOEKLINNS Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, China, Ting Liu MOEKLINNS Lab, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710049, China
11:46
15m
Talk
Mistakes in UML Diagrams: Analysis of Student Projects in a Software Engineering CourseSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training
Stanislav Chren Masaryk University, Barbora Buhnova Masaryk University, Martin Macak Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Lukas Daubner Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, Bruno Rossi Masaryk University
Pre-print
12:01
29m
Talk
Author Panel DiscussionSEET
Software Engineering Education and Training