

It must be a real modeling tool, not a drawing one.This includes the installation process (or switch to a web-based UML tool). And providing an intuitive and easy-to-use UML modeling tool is key for this. We do not want to give a bad first impression. It’s open source, free or, at least, free for students (i.e.To teach UML, I’d like to have a tool that:

But a UML tool for teaching is a different category in itself. In fact, I classify them in different tool categories to try to be a little bit more helpful. I know there is no one-size-fits-all UML tool. And it has also been a “hot” topic in our team, especially since NoMagic dropped the academic license for MagicDraw (or complicated a lot the process to get one, still not sure). Even if I barely teach right now, people keep asking me what tool would I recommend to teach UML courses.
