August 2018
Beginner
594 pages
22h 33m
English
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Semiformal software architecture notations
A semiformal notation in views is a standardized notation that can be used in diagrams. However, fully-defined semantics are not part of a semiformal notation. Unlike informal notations, this type of notation allows for some level of analysis and can potentially be used to automatically generate code from the models.
UML is an example of a semiformal notation that is very popular for modeling. There are some notations that can be used with UML that extend it to provide more robust semantics, making UML more formalized.