Overview and History
UML Definition
A language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, documenting
- the artifacts of software systems
- business modelling
- non-software systems.
Predecessor three amigos
- Object Modeling Technique(OMT) by General Electric, James Rumbaugh
- Book
- class model diagram - structural aspects
- state chart diagram - behavioral aspects
- data flow diagram - functional aspects
- Booch by Grady Booch
- Object-oriented software engineering (OOSE) by Ivar Jacobson
UML “unified” achieves
- It ends many of differences
- It unifieds different systems’s perspectives
- Business vs software
- Development phases
- internal concepts.
UML usage
- design is concerned with the solution to that problem.
- analysis is concerned with the problem being solved.
This courses will discuss three or four diagrams.
Review of UML and views of a model
The following diagrams
Structural diagram shows pieces of the system and the relationships among them
- Class
Behavior diagram concerns the executions of the system
- Use case
- statechart
- activity
- interaction - sequence and collaboration
implementation
- component
- deployment
Benefits of design diagram
Pro
- Communication
- Support of existing methods
- Tool support
Con
- Maintainability
Diagrams for Analysis and Design
Class Model Diagram and Object Diagram
- Dependencies: dashed line with an arrowhead
- Associations: solid line without arrowheads
- Aggregation embellishment to the association: solid line with a diamond.
- Generalization: a solid line with triangle.
The only difference with Class Model Diagram: Object diagram contains title “className:instance name”
Composite Structure Diagrams
Component Diagram
Deployment Diagram
Packages Diagram
Profile Diagram
Use case Diagram
Context Diagram
Sequence Diagram
Communication Diagram
Activity Diagram
Interaction Overview Diagram
Timing Diagram
State Diagram
Object Constraint Language(OCL)
References
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