Uma ferramenta de modelagem colaborativa de diagramas de classes

Abstract

In software development it is necessary to create models to design the construction of the system, how to organize its structure and how its behavior works. One such model is the class diagram, which is a representation of the software structure. It is expressed in the standard language of software development, the UML, and is usually done collaboratively by the development team. Team members use different tools to constructo class diagrams in a collaborative way, but the tools are inappropriate and do not provide good support because they do not have that as their primary goal. With the objective to support collaborative modeling, this paper presents a tool that allows modeling of class diagrams concurrently by members of a team. In order to do this, the state of the art was investigated in the works that deal with tools that support collaborative modeling, searching for technologies that help in the development of the tool and testing those that fit the context of this work. According to the research, the tool was developed for the web platform using these technologies: JSF, a JavaScript library called GoJS and the Hibernate framework. According to the research, the tool was developed for the web platform using JSF technologies, a JavaScript library called GoJS and the Hibernate framework. The verification was performed using manual functional tests and validation was done with possible users, using some metrics from ISO 9126. From the application of the tests, the tool arrived at a stable version and it was possible to obtain the opinion and evaluation of the users. Although some errors occurred in the tool the final result was good, taking into account the opinion of the users who participated in the validation.