Articles on Unified Modeling Language (UML), Software Architecture and Data Modeling
Use case modeling is a popular technique to elicit and model functional requirements of a software development project. In a use case driven development methodology, use cases are used as a basis to guide the development of UML design models. This article provides a model transformation approach to transform use cases descriptions written in a […]
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Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition includes a fully-featured UML (Unified Modeling Language) support, integrated into the IDE. This article on custom UML profiles – an extensibility mechanism that can be used to tailor UML models to a particular problem domain. Readers will see an example of such a profile, which extends UML Class Diagrams for
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There is a lot of documentation associated with Use Cases that needs to be organized somehow. You want the documentation to be understandable, but you need other things as well. For example, you may want to be able to trace from System level to subordinate Use Cases, or from Use Cases to Scenarios to Test
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This article presents a semi-automated method that helps to write use cases iteratively in a natural language and to verify consistency of their temporal properties. This is particularly beneficial when the use cases are created simultaneously by multiple developers. The proposed method allows to verify the consistency of textual use-case specification by employing annotations in
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This article proposes guidelines to create a conceptual (semantic or architectural) entity/relationship model using a Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagrams.
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