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 ...

Since the early 1980's, modeling has been prescribed for helpingsoftware developers to understand their systems as they analyze theproblem, design a solution, and implement and deliver an ...

UML represents use cases on diagrams as named ovals. Actors appear as stick figures. Lines connecting the two are associations, indicating that the messages come from or go to the associated actors ...