Articles on Unified Modeling Language (UML), Software Architecture and Data Modeling
This tutorial walks through typical Java modeling use cases and describe how Modelio, an open source modeling environment, can be used to to support a balanced and efficient model/code development approach and ensure the long-term utility of the UML model for Java developers. It demonstrates Modelio’s ability to automatically maintain consistency between the code and […]
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The construction of business process models is an essential technique that the business analyst. The principle diagram for workflow modeling is the Activity Diagram. This article explores some important aspects of the diagram that apply to workflow analysis and documentation. Even if UML is rich with syntax and semantics and offers many symbols to indicate
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This paper presents a set of refactorings for UML models and explains how they can be designed so as to preserve the behavior the model. Some of these refactorings are illustrated with examples.
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This article analyses and critically assess some UML modeling solutions with observations regarding types, interfaces and classifiers, and problems of associations semantics and notation. Well formedness rules, their format and role are also analyzed. Use case modeling is assessed through their role in eliciting user’s requirements, and dealing with the functionality of the system. Some
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A business use case (BUC) model is the higher abstraction of the system use case model. In a BUC, business actors with specific business goals interact with other business actors. It is primarily an external view of the business model or area of interest. A system use case diagram, on the other hand, illustrates the
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