1.6. UML and Quality

UML facilitates communication. It provides a mechanism to create and share models in an industrially accepted standard of the Object Management Group (OMG). The OMG officially adopted the UML 1.1 specifications in November 1997. After a number of revisions and iterations, the current accepted standard is UML 1.4. The current work going on at the OMG is to create the UML 2.0 standard. The focus of the work in UML 2.0 is the UML infrastructure, the UML superstructure, the OCL, and the Diagram Interchange capabilities.[11]

[11] For more details, see www.omg.org/technology/UML.

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