A Formative Assessment Tool for Conceptual Database Design Using UML Class Diagram

Josep Soler; Imma Boada; Ferran Prados; Jordi Poch; Ramon Fabregat

International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) Vol. 5, No. 3 (Sep 06, 2010) pp. 27–33

Database design is one of the main topics of any introductory database course. Traditionally, for teaching it entity-relationship diagrams (ERD) are used. However, in the last years, Unified Modeling Language (UML) has emerged as an effective...