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Towards an Automatic Evaluation of UML Class Diagrams by Graph Transformation

by Anas Outair, Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, Mariam Tanana
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 95 - Number 21
Year of Publication: 2014
Authors: Anas Outair, Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, Mariam Tanana
10.5120/16721-7063

Anas Outair, Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, Mariam Tanana . Towards an Automatic Evaluation of UML Class Diagrams by Graph Transformation. International Journal of Computer Applications. 95, 21 ( June 2014), 36-41. DOI=10.5120/16721-7063

@article{ 10.5120/16721-7063,
author = { Anas Outair, Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui, Mariam Tanana },
title = { Towards an Automatic Evaluation of UML Class Diagrams by Graph Transformation },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { June 2014 },
volume = { 95 },
number = { 21 },
month = { June },
year = { 2014 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 36-41 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume95/number21/16721-7063/ },
doi = { 10.5120/16721-7063 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%A Abdelouahid Lyhyaoui
%A Mariam Tanana
%T Towards an Automatic Evaluation of UML Class Diagrams by Graph Transformation
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
%@ 0975-8887
%V 95
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%P 36-41
%D 2014
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Object-oriented modeling plays an important role in computer science, particularly in the context of software development projects. It is for this reason that the UML (Unified Modeling Language), and therefore the design of UML diagrams, is necessarily present in the majority of computer science's courses in university. As the number of university students enrolled in such courses is growing, the evaluation of UML diagrams produced by students is often experienced by teachers as a difficult and tedious task. In this paper we propose a method for transforming these diagrams to UML graph in the sake of a better representation, and then assist the teacher during the evaluation process of these diagrams.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Learner assessment UML Diagrams Transformation of graphs