Short Don’t use Activities on an Activity Diagram Purpose Model useful and UML compliant Activity Diagrams Detail UML Activity Diagrams are often used to depict a certain flow of events. One of the reasons Activity […]
Following these 5 rules will make your UML diagrams easier to understand, cleaner, and more consistent. Although that has no effect on the actual model, it will improve the communication with the stakeholders. Rule 1: […]
Short Use Associations for Classes and Attributes for DataTypes Purpose Make an informed choice between Attributes and Associations when modeling a relation between two Classifiers. Details When modeling the structure of your system there are […]
Purpose Model the implementation of your operations with a single sequence diagram for each operation. Details Most UML models I’ve seen in my career contain classes with attributes and operations. An Operation is a specification […]
What makes a UML Composition different from an Aggregation or a regular Association? The concepts of Association, Aggregation and Composition exist in UML since the first published versions, but the exact meaning of these concepts, especially […]
There seem to be a lot of misconceptions about UML in the industry, but one of the most persistent is that UML is all about diagrams. I’ve heard/read phrases like “UML is a collection of […]