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Since the early 1980's, modeling has been prescribed for helpingsoftware developers to understand their systems as they analyze theproblem, design a solution, and implement and deliver an ...

This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

Object-oriented (OO) practices within thesoftware-development community are evolving rapidly.Experimentation and adoption of new techniques and processes arestandard fare in most organizations.

In his Sept. 24 Computerworld column, “Five Diagrams Beat a ‘Victorian Novel’ Text Specification,” Michael Hugos states that Unified Modeling Language “can probably be blamed for many failed system ...

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. The purpose of a class diagram is to ...