Unified Modeling Language User Guide, The (2nd Edition)

Unified Modeling Language User Guide, The (2nd Edition) (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) byGrady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (May 19, 2005) | ISBN-10: 0321267974 | CHM | 4,8 Mb | 496 pages

One of the most important recent developments in software engineering is the Unified Modeling Language (UML) standard for documenting software designs. Written by UML's inventors (the so-called Three Amigos of software engineering), The Unified Modeling Language User Guide provides a very appealing guide to all the fundamentals of using UML effectively. The book opens with a basic tour of the essential concepts and modeling diagrams used in UML, including class diagrams, use case diagrams, and basic modeling principles. The authors pay close attention to modeling classes (and documenting the relationships between classes) as well as use case diagrams (which show how software will be used by various actors in a system). This book mixes in a little software-engineering theory, too, but it makes use of clear examples and actual UML diagrams to illustrate key concepts.