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Automated checks on UML diagrams

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Michael Striewe,

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ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

Pages 38 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999761

Published: 27 June 2011 Publication History

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Automated checks for software artefacts like UML diagrams used in automated assessment or tutoring systems do often rely on direct comparisons between a solution and a sample solution. This approach has drawbacks regarding flexibility in face of different possible solutions which are quite common in modeling tasks. This paper presents an alternative technique for checking UML class diagrams based on graph queries which promises to be more flexible.

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Vachharajani VPareek J(2020)Effective Structure Matching Algorithm for Automatic Assessment of Use-Case DiagramInternational Journal of Distance Education Technologies10.4018/IJDET.202010010318:4(31-50)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2020
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Vachharajani VPareek J(2020)Framework To Approximate Label Matching For Automatic Assessment Of Use-Case DiagramInternational Journal of Distance Education Technologies10.4018/IJDET.201907010517:3(75-95)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2020
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Automated checks on UML diagrams
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Computer-assisted instruction
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. System description languages
      1. Specification languages

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ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education

June 2011

418 pages

ISBN:9781450306973

DOI:10.1145/1999747

General Chair:
Guido Rößling
TU Darmstadt, Germany
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Tom Naps
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA
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Christian Spannagel
PH Heidelberg, Germany

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