July 2001
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
6h 52m
English
book
Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
by Alan Shalloway, James R. Trott
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Why Use the UML?
The UML is used primarily for communication—with myself, my team members, and with my customers. Poor requirements (either incomplete or inaccurate) are ubiquitous in the field of software development. The UML gives us tools to gather better requirements.
The UML gives a way to determine if my understanding of the system is the same as others'. Because systems are complex and have different types of information that must be conveyed, it offers different diagrams specializing in the different types of information.
One easy way to see the value of the UML is to recall your last several design reviews. If you have ever been in a review where someone starts talking about their code and describes it without a modeling language like ...