In the first article in our three-part series on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) we introduce key elements of the modeling language, its history and how to pick a UML tool UML is a language for ...

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 ...

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 ...