Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture

6.2. Association Descriptions

Just as each class has a description, each association also needs a description to establish its basis of abstraction in the domain. The description of an association should not merely restate the descriptions of the associated classes, but should describe the domain relationship under study.

Describe each association from the point of view of each participating class in an additional block of descriptions in the class description. Hence, the Publisher class description will contain first a description of the meaning of the class Publisher, then a description of each attribute (name, address, etc.), then each association with other classes.

Each association should include the role name or verb phrase, the name of ...