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UML for executable specification.

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| August 16, 2001 | Douglass, Bruce Powel | COPYRIGHT 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc. (US). This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

WHEN PROPERLY USED, UML IS AN EFFECTIVE TOOL FOR PREDICTING END-SYSTEM BEHAVIOR AND COMMUNICATING FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS FROM SYSTEM ARCHITECTS TO HARDWARE- AND SOFTWARE-DESIGN ENGINEERS.

UML (UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE) is by far today's most common modeling language. Software engineers routinely use UML in firmware and real-time-and embedded-systems development, and more and more, systems engineers are using it to specify the architectural structure of overall systems. The primary benefits of UML for system specification are twofold. First, for software-centric systems, UML allows an easy transition from system engineers to the software-development teams. This ...

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