What is UML ( Unified Modeling language) / PDF

What is UML ( Unified Modeling language) / PDF

What is UML ?

*UML - Unified Modeling language

*UML is a modeling language, not a methodology or process

*Fuses the concepts of the Booch, OMT, OOSE methods

*Developed by Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson at Rational Software.

*Accepted as a standard by the Object Management Group (OMG), in 1997.

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UML is a modeling language for visualising, specifying, constructing and documenting the artifacts of software systems.

Visualising - a picture is worth a thousand words; a graphical notation articulates and unambiguously communicates the overall view of the system (problem-domain).

Specifying - UML provides the means to model precisely, unambiguously  and completely, the system in question.

Constructing - models built with UML have a “design” dimension to it; these are language independent and can be implemented in any programming language.

Documenting - every software project involves a lot of documentation - from the inception phase to the deliverables.

Structural Things

The nouns of UML models; usually the static parts of the system in question.

Class - an abstraction of a set of things in the problem-domain that have similar properties and/or functionality.

Interface - a collection of operations that specify the services rendered by a class or component..... 

What is UML ( Unified Modeling language) / PDF