University of Computer Studies
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Introduction to UML
Daw Nan Nu Nu Kyi
Lecturer
Faculty of Information Science
Introduction to UML Unified Modeling Language
Model and Modeling
Methodology
Unified Modeling Language
Design Models And Code
The Software Development Process
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The Unified Modeling Language
• A unification of a number of earlier object-oriented modelling languages
• UML is a language for expressing object-oriented design models
• No description or recommendations relating to the process of development
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Views
• 4+1 View Model
UML is informed by a vision of the structure of software systems
• Use Case view, has a special role to play in integrating the contents of the other
four views
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Figure 1.3 : The 4+1 view model
Introduction to UML Unified Modeling Language
Views Cont’d
•Use Case View
Defines the system’s external behavior
Useful for end users, analysts and testers
Defines the requirements of the system
•Design View
Describes logical structure
Useful for programmers
•Implementation View
Describes the physical components
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Useful for configuration management and system integration
Introduction to UML Unified Modeling Language
Views Cont’d
• Process View
Deals with issues of concurrency within the system
• Deployment View
Describes how physical components are distributed across the physical
environment,
such as a network of computers, that the system runs in
• Process and deployment views address non-functional requirements of the
system
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Models and Model Elements
• The information relevant to each view is recorded in the various types of
model defined by UML
• Models
produced at different levels of abstraction
Produced at different stages of the development process
• A model consists of a collection of model elements
UML defines a wide range of different types of model element
• A model is a structure built up of a number of interrelated model elements
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Diagrams
•A model is normally presented to a designer as a set of diagrams
•Diagrams are graphical representations of collections of model elements
•Different types of diagram present different information
Either the structure or the behavior of the model elements
•Each diagram type has rules
What kinds of model elements can appear in diagrams of that type, and
How they are to be shown
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Types of UML Diagram
Table 1.1 : UML’s diagram types
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Model and Modeling
Methodology
Unified Modeling Language
Design Models And Code
The Software Development Process
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Design Models and Code
• The models used in the design of a system present an abstract view
• An implementation adds enough detail to make these models executable
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Introduction to UML Unified Modeling Language
Design Models and Code Cont’d
• Both design documentation and source code can be described as compile-time artefacts.
• Once it is compiled and executed, a program has a variety of run-time properties.
• Object structures are abstractions of what really happens when a program runs.
• Design diagram is an abstraction of the information contained in a source program.
• The diagrams defined in UML are not just pictures, but have a definite meaning .
• UML and object-oriented languages have the same semantic foundations.
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Model and Modeling
Methodology
Unified Modeling Language
Design Models And Code
The Software Development Process
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The Software Development Process
• UML is a modelling language, not a process.
• A project using UML has also to decide what development process to use with it.
• Each project should begin
by defining a suitable process
Taking into account the nature of the system being developed
the size and experience of the development team and other factors
• A process model, the Unified Software Development Process, was developed in parallel
with UML, by the same group of methodologists.
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Chapter Summary
• UML is ‘a general-purpose visual modeling language that is used to specify, visualize,
construct and document the architecture of a software system’.
• This chapter explains how models are used in the software development process, and the role
of a language such as UML.
• The informal account of its semantics and the relationship between design notations and code
is described.
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Reference Text Book
• Mark Priestley , Practical Object-
Oriented Design with UML ,
Second Edition
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Objects
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