UML Weekend Crash Course™ - To Parent Directory

SESSION
3
How to Approach the UML
Session Checklist
✔ Explaining the types of UML diagrams
✔ Explaining the concepts of views
✔ Organizing the diagrams into views by function
✔ Explaining the basic Object-Oriented concepts that support modeling
The UML includes specifications for nine different diagrams used to document various
perspectives of a software solution from project inception to installation and maintenance.
In addition, Packages provides a means to organize your work. The Component
and Deployment diagrams describe an implementation. The remaining seven diagrams are
used to model requirements and design. This session presents a way to organize these last
seven diagrams to make them easier to remember and apply, and an overview of the principles
that guide their development.
Views
One way to organize the UML diagrams is by using views. A view is a collection of diagrams
that describe a similar aspect of the project. I very often use a set of three distinct yet
complementary views that are called the Static View, Dynamic View, and Functional View.
Figure 3-1 illustrates the complementary nature of the three views and the diagrams that
make up each view.