Blog posts about Unified Modeling Language (UML), Software Architecture and Data Modeling
In this blog post, Jürgen Wüst discusses the size and complexity of UML sequence diagrams. He describe and define a basic set of simple size and complexity measures for UML 2.x sequence diagrams.
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In this blog post, Anthony Chen compares the usage of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Requirements Modeling Language (RML) in the business analysis activity. RML® is a language for modeling software requirements to organize and communicate large quantities of information, help identify missing requirements, give context to individual details within the overall collection of requirements,
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This blog post explains how to use Obeo UMLDesigner to create your first UML model with a custom UML profile. UML Designer is an open source Eclipse plugin for the Unified Modeling Language. It provides a set of common diagrams to work with UML 2.1 models. The intent is to provide an easy way to
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This blog post discusses the role of primary and secondary actors in UML use cases. Primary Actors are actor(s) using the system to achieve a goal. The Use Case documents the interactions between the system and the actors to achieve the goal of the primary actor. Secondary Actors are actors that the system needs assistance
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Geert Bellekens has proposed five rules and best practices to draw better Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams. The UML diagramming best practices discussed in his blog post are: Avoid large diagrams with too many items, as UML diagrams containing heaps of elements actually convey less information than smaller and focussed diagrams. Avoid any two lines
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