Learning UML with Red Koda

Learning UML with Red Koda

What is UML?� Visual Modeling Language

� Not Methodology

� Not Programming Language

UML VS UP� UML

� is not methodology

� Provide a visual syntax that we can use to construct models

� UP

� Is methodology

� Iterative and incremental

� 4 phases Inception, elaboration, construction, transition

Why “unified”?� Development Life Cycle

� Application Domains

� Implementation Launguages and Platforms

� Development Processes

� Its Own Internal Concepts

Objects and UML� Collections of Interacting Objects

� Two Aspects of UML model

� Static Structure

� Dynamic Behaviour

Three Building Blocks� Things

� Relationships

� Diagrams

Diagrams

Four Common Mechanisms� Specifications

� Adornments

� Common Divisions

� Extensibility Mechanisms

4 + 1 Views of System Architecture

Reference:� Jim Arlow, Ila Neustadt, UML2 and the Unified

Process, Addison Wesley 2007