A Survey of UML Tools

Abstract

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a modeling language widely used in the field of software engineering. It is a standard to visualize the design of a system structurally and behaviorally. UML tools are software tools used to create UML diagrams, perform model and diagram interchange, model transformation, code generation, reverse engineering and round-trip engineering, There are many free UML tools available to be downloaded in the internet. This paper serves as a survey for ten UML tools and gives recommendation to users on which UML tools to be used in different situations. The main contribution of the paper is to compare the ten up to date UML tools in several aspects.