In our third installment on UML we'll show you how to use sequence diagrams as a tool in your application development and an understanding of object interaction.

If modeling projects aren't available, check that you have the Ultimate version. Create a new UML Class Diagram and drag classes, interfaces and enumerations from the toolbox, as shown in Figure 1. To ...

A UML Primer discusses how Use Casesare the primary means by which UML specifies functionalrequirements and describes the main elements of a use-case diagram.Building a use case model is often seen by ...

UML diagrams are a useful tool for businesses, especially those involved in software development. In this article, we will explore why your business should be using UML diagrams.

In this second article, we describe the elements of Executable and Translatable UML (xtUML, or just Executable UML) [1], how actions enable description of behavior at a higher level of abstraction, ...

Can anyone recommend any free tools to reverse engineer C++ code into standard UML diagrams?This is for a project with ZERO budget for these tools, but requirements to create UML diagrams from ...

We then use model mappings, coupled with marks that indicate which mapping rule to apply, to translate the application model into hardware and software description languages. This approach enables a ...

I now address the next question: how to refine use-case diagrams with interfaces and data flows (mapping to data sources) and how to hyperlink the UML artifacts to provide traceability.

The UML provides an excellent startingpoint for defining and designing computer systems, but forreal-time development, the UML needs to go further.

Even though I have Team Suite MSDN subscription, since we run VS2008 apparently we can't use the "reverse engineer solution to Visio UML class diagrams" functionality that VS2005 had. Thanks ...