Unified Modeling Language(UML) Introduction.

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE:

INTRODUCTION:

• UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. UML is a language for visualizing, documenting the artifacts of software intensive system.

MODEL:

• James Rumbaugh defined Model as a simplification of reality

MODELING:

• Modeling is captures essential parts of the system.

VISUAL MODELING:

• Visual modeling is a modeling with standard graphical notation

WHY DO WE MODEL?

• We build models so that we can better understand the system we are developing
• AIMS OF MODELING
• Models help us to visualize a system as it is or as we want to be
• Models permit us to specify the structure of system
• Models give us a template that guides us in constructing system
• Models can document the decisions we have made

VISUAL MODELING USES:

• Visual modeling captures business process
• Visual modeling is a communication tool
• Visual modeling manages the complexity
• Visual modeling promotes reuse