Sparx Systems, a leading vendor of modeling tools based on UML and related open standards, today announced the launch of its new sister company, Sparx Systems India. With this new addition, Sparx Systems is well positioned to serve the growing Indian IT services market, providing regional support and a distribution base for the company’s flagship product, Enterprise Architect.

Many model-based approaches for user interface design start from a task model, for which the ConcurTaskTrees notation is frequently used. Despite this popularity and the importance that has been given to a close relation with UML, no relation has been established with UML state machines, which have been shown to be useful for the description of the behavior of user interfaces.

In an Unified Modeling Language (UML) use case diagram, an include dependency is a generalization relationship that describes the inclusion of the behavior described by another use case. A UML use case can include more than one use cases and it can be included in multiple use cases.

In this article, Simon Brown discusses the impact of the Agile approaches on the conception and representation of software architectures. The main point of the article is that software developers seems to have abandoned the Unified Modeling Language (UML) or just haven’t learned it. The question is then: how would you represent the software architecture?

Starting from the relationship between the requirements and the test cases, Raul Rugiero proposes in this article to improve the notation of UML uses cases to achieve a better management of the relationship between UML uses cases their related test cases.

Ever seen technical drawings you just couldn’t make any sense of, even though you know very well what they were supposed to show? Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a thousand words can’t repair the damage done by a bad drawing.

Visible Systems is a leading provider of automated modeling tools for developing complex software and information systems. All previous releases of Visible Analyst include integrated modeling capabilities including: Yourdon, Gane & Sarson, IDEF1X, Bachman, Information Engineering, UML, and BPMN for top-down and bottom-up development efforts.

Object-oriented system modeling enables the sharing of responsibilities between system objects at a high level of system abstraction. The UML class diagram is the central part of the object-oriented system model and serves as a “bridge” between the information about the problem domain at the customer’s side and the software components at the developer’s side.

This short tutorial explain how to draw a UML use case diagram for an ATM system. A use case diagram can portray the different types of users of a system and the various ways that they interact with the system.

GenMyModel is an innovative online UML tool for software architects and developers. It allows to create UML-compliant diagrams, export and generate code from your web browser. Within GenMyModel you design real models, not only shapes and lines: your diagrams conform UML and naturally generate code. GenMyModel is developed by a passionate geeky team, upon Javascript and HTML5.