Today is the last day to fill out the survey for the Netbeans UML module.  So, I thought I would share some early results of the survey.  As of Sunday there have been 67 responses. if you have not already taken the survey, please take some time to give us your opinion.

The current results are as followings:

Stability: Excellent 34%, Somewhat 60%, Not Stable 6%
How Often Used: Often 42%, Somewhat 45%, Never 13%
Usability: Excellent 36%, Somewhat 54%, Not Usable 10%
Performance: Excellent 42%, Somewhat 54%, Not Adequate 4%
Documentation: Excellent 46%, Somewhat 52%, Not Adequate 1%

The interesting thing to note, is that almost everyone that said the tool is not usable said it was because it does not support generics.  I would like to hear more information about how UML does not support generics.  The reverse engineering and code generation does have generic support, but perhaps there are areas that are not covered so well.  I know of one important issue that was fixed in the last couple of days.  I think that this issues will make a big difference.  Please let me know what you think.

Types of Users
Design/Architect: 84%
Code Generation: 66%
Reverse Engineering: 75%

Diagrams Used
Activity: 34%
Class: 93%
Collaboration: 19%
Component: 30%
Deployment: 19%
Sequence: 58%
State: 33%
Use Case: 64%

Modeling Activities
Report Generation: 40%
Reverse Engineering: 66%
Code Generation: 69%
Design Patterns: 40%
Requirements Gathering:  36%