SDMetrics V2.31 was released today. This is a maintenance release that addresses some issues with the XMI import. Automatic recognition of XMI 2.4/2.4.1 files Ever since XMI 1.0, the XMI standards mandated a “version” attribute in the root element of the XMI file to indicate the XMI version of the file. It was simple and… [Continue reading]
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Survey of UML Quality Modeling Papers: Less Than One Third Contain Empirical Work
I found an interesting review paper titled “A Systematic Literature Review on the Quality of UML Models” by Marcela Genero, Ana Fernández-Saez, H. James Nelson, Geert Poels, and Mario Piattini. It was published in the Journal of Database Management 22 (3), 46-70, 2011. You can also find it here. The paper aims to determine the… [Continue reading]
SDMetrics – Not For UML Models Only
SDMetrics advertizes itself as “The Software Design Metrics tool for the UML”. SDMetrics has a flexible XMI parser to import UML models, as XMI is the most common UML model interchange format. But XMI is not limited to UML model interchange. It can be used to serialize any MOF-based models to XML. Therefore, SDMetrics too… [Continue reading]
Customizing the XMI Import for Enterprise Architect UML Component Diagrams
Recently, some SDMetrics Open Core users approached me with a neat little measurement problem that is ideally suited for this blog. They used Enterprise Architect to create UML 1.3 component diagrams with classifier roles. The XMI output of Enterprise Architect for these diagrams contained several tagged values for the classifier role instances, including two with… [Continue reading]
The Effects of Stability on UML Model Composition Effort
The January 2013 issue of “Software & Systems Modeling” contains a new empirical study on UML quality modeling. The paper is titled “Effects of stability on model composition effort: an exploratory study ” by Kleinner Farias, Alessandro Garcia, and Carlos Lucena. The full paper is available for download. Here is my review. The paper investigates… [Continue reading]