The Elements of UML™ 2.0 Style

Concise and easy-to-understand guidelines and standards for creating UML 2.0 diagrams.

Scott W. Ambler (Author)

9780521616782, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 9 May 2005

202 pages, 59 b/w illus.
17.8 x 11.3 x 1.8 cm, 0.175 kg

From reviews of The Elements of UML Style by Scott Ambler: 'Just as Strunk & White's The Elements of Style provides rules of usage for writing in English, this text furnishes a set of rules for modeling in the Unified Modeling Language.' IEEE Computer

For all developers who create models using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.x The Elements of UML™ 2.0 Style sets the rules for style that will improve your productivity - especially in teams, where understandability and consistency are critical. Coming from renowned UML expert Scott Ambler, the book furnishes a set of rules for modelling in the UML and describes a collection of standards and guidelines for creating effective UML diagrams that will be concise and easy to understand. It provides conventions for: Class diagrams; Timing Diagrams; Use case diagrams; Composite Structure Diagrams; Sequence diagrams; Interaction Overview Diagrams; Activity diagrams; Object diagrams; State machine diagrams; Package diagrams; Communication diagrams; Deployment diagrams and Component diagrams. The Elements of UML™ 2.0 Style sets the rules for style that will improve your productivity.

1. Introduction
2. General diagramming guidelines
3. Guidelines for common UML modeling elements
4. UML use case diagrams
5. UML class diagrams
6. UML package diagrams
7. UML sequence diagrams
8. UML communication diagrams
9. UML state machine diagrams
10. UML activity diagrams
11. UML component diagrams
12. UML deployment diagrams
13. UML object diagrams
14. UML composite structure diagrams
15. UML interaction overview diagrams
16. UML timing diagrams
17. Agile modeling
18. Summary
19. Bibliography
20. Index.

Subject Areas: Software Engineering [UMZ], Object-oriented programming [OOP UMN]