Guide to Applying the Uml

by Alhir, Sinan Si

• ISBN13: 9780387952093
• ISBN10: 0387952098
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an evolutionary general-purpose, tool-supported, and industry-standardized (OMG) modeling language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a system-intensive process. "Guide to Applying the UML" offers a practical bridge between tutorials and reference works, demonstrating how all of the elements of the UML fit together holistically and cohesively. It closes the gap between the UML and process using a ¿roadmap¿ that addresses the key decision points and their relationships, providing a comprehensive framework. The focus is on rules of usage and principles of composition, style guidelines, practical real-world examples, and a tool-, process-, and technology-independent roadmap for effectively and successfully applying the UML. Topics and features:* Essential rules for using the UML and composing UML models are collated around important UML constructs *Presents a broad introduction to applying the UML, without having to prematurely adopt a particular process*Provides detailed examples, enabling readers to make informed decisions when modeling across the system development life cycle*Demonstrates how UML elements are related and how the UML supports traceability and scales for the life cycle process*Clear, well-developed diagrams simplify learning and applying core concepts and techniques With its focused, yet highly accessible approach, this guide strikes an integrated balance between UML rules and practices. It is an authoritative and comprehensive reference for software practitioners and professionals involved in the design, development, and management of UML-related software projects. About the author: Sinan Si Alhir is a highly respected consultant and has extensive information systems/technology experience, and breadth and depth in all phases of the system development life cycle. With experience in both high- and low-level project work, and broad and deep knowledge of technology and methodology, he endeavors to deliver quality solution-oriented results within various application domains using a multitude of technologies and approaches.He specializes in object-orientation, methodology/process, the Unified Modeling Language (UML), and various other disciplines and subjects, and focuses on empowering organizations to benefit from their application.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Introduction to the Unified Modeling Language (UML)	1	(11)
What is the Unified Modeling Language (UML)?	1	(2)
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Process or Methodology	3	(2)
History of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)	5	(4)
Effectively and Successfully Applying the Unified Modeling Language (UML)	9	(3)
Modeling	12	(49)
Languages	12	(11)
Alphabets	13	(1)
Words	13	(1)
Sentences	14	(1)
Paragraphs	14	(3)
Sections	17	(1)
Documents	18	(1)
Other Elements	18	(5)
Systems and Contexts	23	(10)
Domains or Spaces	23	(1)
Systems	23	(1)
Architectures	24	(2)
Models	26	(4)
Architectural Views	30	(1)
Diagrams	31	(2)
Modeling Mechanisms	33	(6)
Perspectives	34	(2)
Levels of Abstraction	36	(1)
Dichotomies	37	(1)
Extension Mechanisms	38	(1)
Processes and Methodologies	39	(13)
Development Cycles and Phases	40	(2)
Iteration Cycles and Phases	42	(2)
Iteration Phase Details	44	(2)
Heuristics	46	(6)
The Value of Processes and Methodologies	52	(9)
The Question	52	(1)
Fine Cuisine and Systems Development	53	(3)
The Roadmap	56	(3)
The Answer	59	(2)
Object Orientation	61	(62)
Principles of Object Orientation	61	(5)
Abstraction	61	(2)
Encapsulation	63	(2)
Generalization	65	(1)
Polymorphism	66	(1)
Structural (Static) Concepts	66	(27)
Class and Object Diagrams	66	(21)
Use-Case Diagrams	87	(3)
Component Diagrams	90	(1)
Deployment Diagrams	91	(2)
Behavioral (Dynamic) Concepts	93	(18)
Sequence and Collaboration Diagrams	95	(9)
State Diagrams	104	(4)
Activity Diagrams	108	(3)
Object-Oriented Systems	111	(12)
Packages	112	(2)
Templates	114	(1)
Patterns and Frameworks	115	(2)
Systems	117	(6)
The Roadmap	123	(63)
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) Sentence	124	(6)
Collaborating and Interacting Systems	124	(1)
Services	124	(2)
Service Realizations	126	(2)
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) Sentence	128	(2)
The Roadmap Space	130	(5)
Perspectives and Levels of Abstraction	130	(1)
Cartesian Product	130	(2)
The Roadmap Space	132	(3)
The General Roadmap	135	(5)
Perspectives and Levels of Abstraction	135	(2)
Process Disciplines	137	(1)
The General Roadmap	138	(2)
Detailed and Notational Roadmap	140	(42)
Conceptual Elements	140	(4)
Mechanisms	144	(2)
The Roadmap	146	(8)
A Roadmap Example	154	(28)
Applying the Roadmap	182	(4)
Heavyweight and Lightweight Approaches	183	(1)
Heuristics	184	(2)
Use-Case (User) Modeling	186	(26)
Use-Case Diagrams	186	(19)
Actors	186	(2)
Use Cases	188	(6)
Actor Relationships	194	(2)
Use-Case Relationships	196	(9)
Applying Use-Case Diagrams	205	(7)
The Construct	206	(2)
Requirements	208	(3)
Unification	211	(1)
Structural (Static) Modeling	212	(65)
Class Diagrams	212	(35)
Classifiers	212	(19)
Relationships	231	(16)
Object Diagrams	247	(5)
Classifier Instances	247	(4)
Relationship Instances	251	(1)
Applying Class and Object Diagrams	252	(25)
Conceptual Elements	253	(1)
Mechanisms	254	(1)
The Construct	254	(3)
Analysis	257	(5)
Design	262	(8)
Validation	270	(6)
Unification	276	(1)
Behavioral (Dynamic) Modeling	277	(49)
Sequence Diagrams	277	(12)
Classifier Roles	279	(1)
Interactions	280	(3)
Lifelines	283	(3)
Activations	286	(1)
Messages and Stimuli	286	(3)
Collaboration Diagrams	289	(18)
Association Roles	290	(2)
Collaborations	292	(2)
Messages and Stimuli	294	(6)
Behavioral Organization	300	(7)
Statechart Diagrams	307	(9)
States	307	(3)
Transitions	310	(5)
Submachines	315	(1)
Activity Diagrams	316	(4)
Action States	316	(2)
Swimlanes	318	(1)
Flows	318	(2)
Applying Sequence, Collaboration, Statechart, and Activity Diagrams	320	(6)
Sequence Diagrams	321	(1)
Collaboration Diagrams	321	(1)
State Diagrams	322	(3)
Activity Diagrams	325	(1)
Component (Implementation) Modeling	326	(9)
Component Diagrams	326	(6)
Artifacts	327	(1)
Components	328	(3)
Component Relationships	331	(1)
Applying Component Diagrams	332	(3)
The Construct	332	(1)
Implementation	333	(1)
Unification	334	(1)
Deployment (Environment) Modeling	335	(8)
Deployment Diagrams	335	(4)
Nodes	336	(1)
Node Relationships	336	(3)
Applying Deployment Diagrams	339	(4)
The Construct	340	(1)
Deployment	340	(1)
Unification	341	(2)
Extension Mechanisms	343	(21)
Architecture of the Unified Modeling Language (UML)	343	(7)
The Four-Layer Metamodeling Architecture	344	(4)
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) Metamodel	348	(2)
Stereotypes	350	(8)
Declaration	350	(4)
Application	354	(4)
Properties	358	(3)
Constraints	358	(1)
Tag Definitions and Tagged Values	359	(2)
Profiles	361	(3)
The Object Constraint Language (OCL)	364	(27)
What is the Object Constraint Language (OCL)?	364	(1)
Expressions	365	(5)
Invariants	366	(1)
Preconditions and Postconditions	367	(2)
Package Statements	369	(1)
Let Expressions and Definition Constraints	370	(1)
Properties	370	(6)
Classifiers and Instances	373	(1)
Associations and Links	374	(1)
Classifier and Instance-Scoped Properties	375	(1)
The Standard Object Constraint Language (OCL) Types	376	(13)
Basic Types	377	(4)
Collection Types	381	(8)
The Standard Object Constraint Language (OCL) Package	389	(2)
References	391	(4)
Index	395