In the first article in our three-part series on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) we introduce key elements of the modeling language, its history and how to pick a UML tool UML is a language for ...

This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

Since the early 1980's, modeling has been prescribed for helpingsoftware developers to understand their systems as they analyze theproblem, design a solution, and implement and deliver an ...

Embedded systems usually need only a UML core subset, consisting of use cases, classes and objects, and statecharts. In recent years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been successfully used to ...

In his Sept. 24 Computerworld column, “Five Diagrams Beat a ‘Victorian Novel’ Text Specification,” Michael Hugos states that Unified Modeling Language “can probably be blamed for many failed system ...