4AN INTRODUCTION TO UML AND USE CASES
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a graphic-based developmental language used to describe requirements and standards for software design. The latest versions of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) SDD standard are built around UML concepts, so we’ll start by covering the background and features of UML before moving on to how the language implements use cases to help us represent software system designs clearly and consistently.
4.1 The UML Standard
UML started out in the mid-1990s as a collection of three independent modeling languages: the Booch method (Grady Booch), the object ...
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