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.

If modeling projects aren't available, check that you have the Ultimate version. Create a new UML Class Diagram and drag classes, interfaces and enumerations from the toolbox, as shown in Figure 1. To ...

I've been using modeling diagrams for 10 years on embedded 8-bit projects (first Shlaer-Mellor, now UML). I've never used the generated code in a final product and I doubt I will until the tools come ...

In this second article, we describe the elements of Executable and Translatable UML (xtUML, or just Executable UML) [1], how actions enable description of behavior at a higher level of abstraction, ...

This article will reiterate these two points as we seek toillustrate how to use UML in the development of an OO real-timesystem. As well as showing where UML can be of benefit, we willalso identify ...

We then use model mappings, coupled with marks that indicate which mapping rule to apply, to translate the application model into hardware and software description languages. This approach enables a ...

Can anyone recommend any free tools to reverse engineer C++ code into standard UML diagrams?This is for a project with ZERO budget for these tools, but requirements to create UML diagrams from ...

I now address the next question: how to refine use-case diagrams with interfaces and data flows (mapping to data sources) and how to hyperlink the UML artifacts to provide traceability.