Using UML for Deployment Documentation
In this section, we will see the Unified Modeling Language (UML) formalism for software deployment. Like deployment itself, UML deployment diagrams are often overlooked by technical writers and developers, who prefer to concentrate their efforts on more “popular” UML model diagrams, such as static class, use-case, and scenario diagrams. The so-called UML “physical” diagrams are of two types:
Deployment diagrams. They show the physical relationships among software and hardware components in the installed system. They are composed of nodes, representing some type of computational item, often a hardware unit (from a back-end server to an embedded device). Then, we may have connections among nodes, showing the ...
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