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Why this modeling portal?

Modeling is supposed to be one of the most important activities in any software development process. At least this is the general understanding within the software engineering research community. However, in the day-to-day practice, modeling is usually regarded as, basically, a waste of time.

Top seven UML cheatsheets

If you need a quick reference guide for the UML notation, check one of the following, IMHO, gret UML cheat sheets (in no particular order):

DiaGen and DiaMeta - Tools for the generation of diagram editors

Today we have a guest post by Steffen Mazanek where he introduces the DiaGen and DiaMeta tools. Enjoy!

DiaGen and DiaMeta both are meta-tools (see figure below) for the generation of diagram editors. The project leader is Mark Minas from Universität der Bundeswehr München.

Where do researchers hang out online?

I was interested in discussing our strategy for the industrialization of research tools with fellow researchers but I just realized I don't know where to find them online.

Why using UML? - Interesting column by Diomidis D. Spinellis

Diomidis Spinellis has just published the very interesting column UML Everywhere where he defends that all software engineers should adopt the same graphic standard notation for drawing all our diagrams and, more specifically, he proposed to use UML as such standard notation.

A new video for UMLtoDB - the online SQL code generation service

Now you can see a video of the UMLtoDB online generation service showing how easy is to generate your database schema from a simple UML model (only a class diagram is needed; forget about using stereotypes or ad hoc UML extensions).

See the video below:

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