Chapter 2. An Outline Development Process
The UML is a modeling language, not a method. The UML has no notion of process, which is an important part of a method.
The title of this book is UML Distilled, so I could have safely ignored process. However, I don't believe that modeling techniques make any sense without knowing how they fit into a process. This is why I decided to discuss the process first, so you can see how an object-oriented development works. I call it an outline process because rather than trying to go into great detail, I'm offering just enough to give you a sense of the typical way in which a project that uses these techniques is run.
The three amigos have developed a merged process called the Rational Unified Process. (It ...
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