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Introduction to UML

05.1 Introduction to UML


What is UML?
• Unified Modeling Language
– OMG Standard, Object Management Group
– Based on work from Booch, Rumbaugh, Jacobson
• UML is a modeling language to express and
design documents, software
– Particularly useful for OO design
– Not a process, but some have been proposed using
UML
– Independent of implementation language
Why use UML
• Open Standard, Graphical notation for
– Specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting software
systems
• Language can be used from general initial design to very
specific detailed design across the entire software
development lifecycle
• Increase understanding/communication of product to
customers and developers
• Support for diverse application areas
• Support for UML in many software packages today (e.g.
Rational, plugins for popular IDE’s like NetBeans, Eclipse)
• Based upon experience and needs of the user community
Brief History
• Inundated with methodologies in early 90’s
– Booch, Jacobson, Yourden, Rumbaugh
• Booch, Jacobson merged methods 1994
• Rumbaugh joined 1995
• 1997 UML 1.1 from OMG includes input from
others, e.g. Yourden
• UML v2.0 current version
History of UML
Contributions to UML
UML Baseline
• Use Case Diagrams
• Class Diagrams
• Interaction Diagrams
– Sequence
– Collaboration
• Activity Diagrams
• State Transition Diagrams
UML Baseline
Structural Modeling
• Structural modeling captures the static features of a system.
• Classes diagram • Objects diagram • Deployment diagram •
Package diagram • Composite structure diagram • Component
diagram
Behavioral Modeling
• Behavioral model describes the interaction in the system. It
represents the interaction among the structural diagrams.
Behavioral modeling shows the dynamic nature of the system.
• Activity diagram • Use case diagram

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