Basic Rules to Build Correct UML Diagrams

Author

Alanazi, Mohammad N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2009

fDate

June 30 2009-July 2 2009

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

76

Abstract

The unified modeling language (UML) has been designed to be a full standard notation for object oriented modeling. UML has nine types of diagrams class, object, sequence, collaboration, use case, statechart, activity, deployment and, component diagram. All these diagrams together are used to describe one model. There are some basic rules should be followed when drawing a diagram. Also, one diagram could be correct but inconsistence with another. This paper proposed fifteen basic rules that help developers to build correct and consistent UML diagrams.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; object-oriented languages; UML diagrams; activity diagram; class diagram; class, diagram; collaboration diagram; component diagram; deployment diagram; object diagram; object oriented modeling; sequence diagram; statechart diagram; unified modeling language; use case diagram; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Formal languages; Object oriented modeling; Programming; Software systems; Unified modeling language; Modeling Langauges; Software Modeling; UML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

New Trends in Information and Service Science, 2009. NISS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3687-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NISS.2009.252

Filename

5260494