UML Basics Tutorial

Author: Luo Fu
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: This book is written for developers, analysts, quality assurance personnel, and project managers. Don't be misled by the title of this book. Although the title involves beginners, this book is not just for junior developers or entry-level analysts. In fact, this book assumes that readers have a basic understanding of software and how it is built. Analysts can learn from this book how to gather business requirements from system users or quasi-users. They will learn and understand what developers need to write the system. Developers will learn how to use the information provided by analysts to start building specific models for the system and finally write its code. Quality assurance personnel will learn how to read the design diagrams of applications to be tested to make their work more efficient. Of course, project managers can learn how to manage the entire process to ensure the project runs smoothly. If you've read this far, you may already share an understanding of the importance of establishing software models before developing software. You've learned this point before undertaking any major project, or you're reading this book because you're currently involved in a project—either way, you're very fortunate. No matter what, it's never too late to learn the right things, and this book will show you that. Through this book, readers will be able to use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for software design, analysis, and development. This book follows the consistent style of the "Beginner's Guide" series, using rich graphics to express users' software design ideas, so that the final product is well-structured and more stable. Through this book, you will learn use case diagrams and object-oriented concepts in software design and analysis. Reduce development time spent creating correct design and structure documents. Understand activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and class diagrams, and use integrated diagrams to check system structure. Whether you are a programmer, engineer, software developer, software constructor, or a student of computer science, this book is a great guide and companion for you to start learning UML.