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 ...

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 ...

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 our third installment on UML we'll show you how to use sequence diagrams as a tool in your application development and an understanding of object interaction. The purpose of a class diagram is to ...

UML (Unified Modeling Language) is by far today's most common modeling language. Software engineers routinely use UML in firmware and real-time- and embedded-systems development, and more and more, ...