UML Summarized: Key Concepts and Diagrams for Software Engineers, Architects, and Designers

By Phillip Mrzyglocki

"UML Summarized: Key Concepts and Diagrams for Software Engineers, Architects, and Designers" is a concise guide to the Unified Modeling Language, intended for an audience containing both beginners and experts. It is succinct while still providing extensive coverage of the subject matter.

 

This book offers a straightforward and condensed summary of the most important UML concepts and diagrams, such as use case diagrams, class diagrams, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams, and many more. Every diagram is broken down into minute detail, along with an explanation of its function and recommendations for effective application.

 

It is the perfect resource for understanding and applying UML concepts in various projects, whether you are new student to the UML yourself, or it is your intention to begin teaching it to others. "UML Summarized" is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in enhancing their design and architecture skills, and it contains numerous implementation examples, as well as informative explanations. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Phillip Mrzyglocki
• Release date: Mar 25, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215718742

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Introduction to UML

As society continues to advance technologically, one can expect that new ideas and concepts will be constantly at the forefront of human development. Since the term society implies some type of situation requiring the involvement of more than one human, one can then infer that these aforementioned new ideas and concepts will need to be conveyed between those humans, along with the technology they build, and subsequently use, to fulfill their wants and needs. And how do humans communicate with themselves, and their technologies?

Through languages. Historically, languages have mostly manifested themselves in two major forms: Spoken languages, which are conveyed with sound, and written languages, conveyed with image. Quite often a single language will contain both of these forms. However, traditional languages, even in their written forms, were not originally organized for the purpose of designing and conveying complex systems and processes, while also being able to convey them between parties with both speed and accuracy. And thus, as society has advanced, a new need for modeling languages was born.

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a modeling language. Modeling languages are used to discuss and describe complex systems, processes, arrangements, and ideas. What the UML uniquely offers as a modeling language is a standardized syntax and collection of diagrams that may be used to illustrate the structure, behavior, and interactions of a system, or many systems. Since its inception, UML has been an essential tool for software engineers, system architects, and analysts to communicate and collaborate on software design, troubleshooting, and development. Additionally, it can have many other applications in various industries including engineering, finance, healthcare, logistics, and business. There is really no limit or boundary to the usage of the UML, and it is meant to be flexible enough to cater to the needs of the person(s) using it. In recent years many technologists, futurists, thought leaders, and other experts have been quoted to strongly hypothesize that both the importance and value of UML literacy will continue to skyrocket, as the technological landscape evolves. (Especially in the era of AI-originated software, since it is projected that the workload of the standard computer programmer will pivot away from building original code, and pivot more towards time spent troubleshooting code generated from artificial intelligence.)

In the middle of the 1990s, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson, three of the world's top authorities in software engineering, collaborated to create the Unified Modeling Language. UML was created with the intention of unifying the best practices of object-oriented modeling, and it has now evolved into the industry standard modeling language.

Many object-oriented modeling languages existed before UML, each with their own syntax and