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Technical & Business Writing

(ENG-715)
Shaukat Ali Khan
UIIT, Rawalpindi
Outline
1. Introduction to UML
2. Basic UML Modeling Steps
3. UML Diagrams
4. Summary
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Unified Modeling Language
(UML)
Lecture: 2

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1. Introduction
Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a standardized
general-purpose modeling language
The standard is managed, and was created, by the
Object Management Group in 1997
UML includes a set of graphic notation techniques to
create visual models of object-oriented software
UML is used to specify, visualize, modify, construct
and document the artifacts of a software
It can be used with all processes, throughout the
software development life cycle, and across different
implementation technologies
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Introduction (Continue)
UML has become de facto industry standard
UML models may be automatically transformed to
other representations (e.g. Java)
UML is extensible, with two mechanisms for
customization: profiles and stereotypes
UML 2.2 has 14 types of diagrams divided into two
categories
Seven diagram types represent structural information
Seven diagram types represent general types of behavior
Four that represent different aspects of interactions
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Introduction (Continue)
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Basic UML Modeling Steps
Use Cases
Capture requirements
Domain Model
Capture process, key classes
Design Model
Capture details and behaviors of use cases and
domain objects
Add classes that do the work and define the
architecture
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Class Diagram
UML class diagrams show the classes of the
system, their inter-relationships, and the
operations and attributes of the classes
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Class Diagram (Continue)
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Component Diagram
UML component diagrams shows the
dependencies among software components,
including the classifiers that specify them (for
example implementation classes) and the
artifacts that implement them; such as source
code files, binary code files, executable files,
scripts and tables.
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Component Diagram (Continue)
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Deployment Diagram
UML deployment diagrams show the
hardware for your system, the software that is
installed on that hardware, and the
middleware used to connect the disparate
machines to one another.
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Deployment Diagram (Continue)
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Object Diagram
UML Object diagrams (Instance diagrams),
are useful for exploring real world examples
of objects and the relationships between
them. It shows instances instead of classes.
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Object Diagram (Continue)
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Package Diagram
UML Package diagrams simplify complex
class diagrams, it can group classes into
packages. A package is a collection of
logically related UML elements. Packages
are depicted as file folders and can be used
on any of the UML diagrams.
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Package Diagram
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Profile Diagram
Profile diagram is structure diagram which
describes lightweight extension mechanism
to the UML by defining custom stereotypes,
tagged values, and constraints. Profiles allow
adaptation of the UML metamodel for
different platforms and domains.
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Profile Diagram (Continue)
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Activity Diagram
UML Activity diagrams helps to describe the
flow of control of the target system, such as
the exploring complex business rules and
operations, describing the use case also the
business process. It is object-oriented
equivalent of flow charts and data-flow
diagrams (DFDs).
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Activity Diagram (Continue)
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Use Case Diagram
UML Use case diagrams describes the
behavior of the target system from an
external point of view. Use cases describe
"the meat" of the actual requirements.
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Use Case Diagram (Continue)
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State Machine Diagram
UML State machine diagrams can show the
different states of an entity also how an entity
responds to various events by changing from
one state to another. The history of an entity
can best be modeled by a finite state
diagram.
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State Machine Diagram (Continue)
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Sequence Diagram
UML Sequence diagrams models the
collaboration of objects based on a time
sequence. It shows how the objects interact
with others in a particular scenario of a use
case.
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Sequence Diagram (Continue)
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Summary
Any Questions?