In practice: UML software architecture and design description

Author

Lange, Christian F J ; Chaudron, Michel R V ; Muskens, Johan

Author_Institution

Syst. Archit. & Networking Group, Eindhoven Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

23

Issue

2

fYear

2006

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

46

Abstract

The Unified Modeling Language has attracted many organizations and practitioners. UML is now the de facto modeling language for software development. Several features account for its popularity: it´s a standardized notation, rich in expressivity; UML 2.0 provides 13 diagram types that enable modeling several different views and abstraction levels. Furthermore, UML supports domain-specific extensions using stereotypes and tagged values. Finally, several case tools integrate UML modeling with other tasks such as generating code and reverse-engineering models from code. Our study focused on UML use and model quality in actual projects rather than on its adequacy as a notation or language.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; formal specification; software architecture; software metrics; UML; Unified Modeling Language; domain-specific modelling; software architecture; software design description; software development; Demography; Industrial control; Inspection; Job shop scheduling; Programming; Software architecture; Software design; Terminology; Unified modeling language; Unified Modeling Language (UML); current practice; industry survey; software quality;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0740-7459

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MS.2006.50

Filename

1605177