Modeling Technique—UML

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has evolved into an industry standard for documenting the components of an object-oriented system. The construction of a model that maps to the real-world object is half the solution to the problem. The model abstracts the necessary details of the software problem and maps the real-world objects to their corresponding software system artifacts. This section gives a short introduction of UML.

Because UML is a language itself, it provides its own set of rules, notations, and syntax. The notations are used in a set of specialized software diagrams that represent different facets of the solution. The notations are governed by a set of rules and the diagrams are created by combining the shapes ...

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