UML 2 For Dummies
UML 2 For Dummies
ISBN: 0764526146
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Authors: Michael Jesse Chonoles, James A. Schardt
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- UML 2 for Dummies
- Introduction
- Some Presumptuous Assumptions
- How This Book Is Organized
- Icons Used in This Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part I: UML and System Development
- Chapter 1: What s UML About, Alfie?
- Introducing UML
- Appreciating the Power of UML
- Choosing the Appropriate UML Diagram
- Identifying Who Needs UML
- Dispelling Misconceptions about UML
- Chapter 2: Following Best Practices
- Understanding UML Terminology and Concepts
- Improving Your Productivity
- Part II: The Basics of Object Modeling
- Chapter 3: Objects and Classes
- Recognizing Classes and Objects
- Naming Objects and Classes
- Identifying Attributes
- Performing Operations
- Diagramming a System s Parts
- Defining Visibility
- Chapter 4: Relating Objects That Work Together
- Showing Static Relationships in a Class Diagram
- Linking Objects Together
- Associating Classes
- Naming Your Associations
- Relating Many Objects (Multiplicity)
- Understanding the Roles That Classes Can Play
- Associating Classes with Themselves
- Using Association Classes
- Qualifying Relationships
- Finding a Way-Navigation
- Creating a Program
- Chapter 5: Including the Parts with the Whole
- Representing the Whole and the Parts
- Showing Ownership: Composition
- Showing What Can Be Shared: Aggregation
- Deciding between Aggregation and Composition
- Using Alternate Composite Notation
- Chapter 6: Reusing Superclasses: Generalization and Inheritance
- Making Generalizations
- Specializing Classes
- Using Generalization Sets
- Inheriting from Ancestors
- Exploring the Pros and Cons of Multiple Inheritances
- Reusing Code
- Chapter 7: Organizing UML Class Diagrams and Packages
- Modeling Objects and Classes on Diagrams
- Constructing Class Diagrams
- Using Project-Oriented Class Diagrams
- Part III: The Basics of Use-Case Modeling
- Chapter 8: Introducing Use-Case Diagrams
- Identifying Your Audience
- Casting the System s Actors
- Exposing an Actor s Roles
- Showing Your System s Use Cases
- Distinguishing between Internal and External
- Using Context Diagrams
- Packaging Use Cases
- Chapter 9: Defining the Inside of a Use Case
- Creating a Use-Case Specification
- Telling the Use-Case Story
- Indicating Alternative Courses of Behavior
- Chapter 10: Relating Use Cases to Each Other
- Linking Use Cases with include
- Using Generalization with Use Cases
- Extending Use Cases
- Part IV: The Basics of Functional Modeling
- Chapter 11: Introducing Functional Modeling
- Modeling Functions from an Object-Oriented Perspective
- Writing Text-Based Behavioral Specifications
- Chapter 12: Capturing Scenarios with Sequence Diagrams
- Diagramming an Interaction Scenario
- Composing Interaction Diagrams
- Chapter 13: Specifying Workflows with Activity Diagrams
- Ordering the Flow of Behavior
- Working through Workflow Diagrams
- Chapter 14: Capturing How Objects Collaborate
- Developing a Collaboration
- Constructing the Communication Diagram
- Conquering Concurrency
- Capturing the Collaboration s Design
- Chapter 15: Capturing the Patterns of Behavior
- Describing Patterns with Collaborations
- Applying Patterns
- Framing Frameworks
- Part V: Dynamic Modeling
- Chapter 16: Defining the Object s Lives with States
- Showing the Life of an Object
- Programming an Object s Memory with State Attributes
- Creating State Diagrams from Scenarios
- Chapter 17: Interrupting the States by Hosting Events
- Making Use of Events
- Indicating Order of Execution on a Diagram
- Showing Transitions as Icons
- Chapter 18: Avoiding States of Confusion
- Simplifying Large State Diagrams
- Handling Concurrency with States
- Building Protocol State Machines
- Part VI: Modeling the System s Architecture
- Chapter 19: Deploying the System s Components
- Defining Your System
- Constructing Logical Pieces
- Working with Components
- Deploying Physical Pieces (Implementation)
- Chapter 20: Breaking the System into PackagesSubsystems
- Using Packages and Subsystems
- Exploring Dependencies
- Patterning the Relationships
- Part VII: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 21: Ten Common Modeling Mistakes
- Splitting Attributes and Operations
- Using Too Few or Too Many Diagram Types
- Showing Too Much Detail
- Using Vague Terminology
- Defining the Same Thing Twice
- Linking Everything Together
- Creating Too Many Use Cases
- Completing One Diagram Before Moving On
- Cycling Around Class Diagrams
- Not Listening to the User
- Chapter 22: Ten Useful UML Web Sites
- Weave a Tangled Web
- UML Home Page
- UML Forum
- UML 2 Submitters
- OCL Center
- Magazines and Information Portals
- Search Engines
- Tool Sites
- Training Sites
- Forums and Groups
- Miscellaneous Sites
- Chapter 23: Ten Useful UML Modeling Tools
- Picking a Tool
- ArgoUML
- Cittera
- Ideogramic UML
- Objecteering
- Rational Rose Suite
- Rhapsody
- System Architect
- Tau
- TogetherSoft
- Visio
- Chapter 24: Ten Diagrams for Quick Development
- Context Diagram
- Use-Case Diagram
- Domain Class Diagram
- Sequence Diagram
- State Diagram
- Application Class Diagram
- Package Diagram
- Deployment Diagram
- Communication Diagram
- Activity Diagram
- Index
- Index_A
- Index_B
- Index_C
- Index_D
- Index_E
- Index_F
- Index_G
- Index_H
- Index_I
- Index_J
- Index_K
- Index_L
- Index_M
- Index_N
- Index_O
- Index_P
- Index_Q
- Index_R
- Index_S
- Index_T
- Index_U
- Index_V
- Index_W
- Index_X
- Index_Y
- Index_Z
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
- List of Sidebars
UML 2 For Dummies
ISBN: 0764526146
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 193
Pages: 193
Authors: Michael Jesse Chonoles, James A. Schardt