Universal Modeling Language (UML) is a way of visualizing a software program using a collection of diagrams. That is perhaps the simplest way to define it. If you’re looking for a full-winded ...

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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 ...

Excel Software has released QuickUML Mac OS X, an object-oriented design tool for a core set of UML (Unified Modeling Language) models. It’s the first Mac OS X addition to Excel’s suite of Mac OS 9, ...

To effectively use Unified Modeling Language when developing Java applications, developers must have a thorough understanding of the UML elements and how these elements map to Java. To effectively use ...

In recent years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been successfully used to develop many embedded applications, including avionics, automotive, medical, industrial automation, and ...

This paper documents work that has been carried out to automate the checking of system software architecture specifications of SoCs. Checking the architecture ...