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Software Engineering, 10th Edition
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Software Engineering, 10th Edition

by Ian Sommerville
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
36h 46m
English
Pearson
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5 System modeling

Objectives

The aim of this chapter is to introduce system models that may be developed as part of requirements engineering and system design processes. When you have read the chapter, you will:

  • understand how graphical models can be used to represent software systems and why several types of model are needed to fully represent a system;

  • understand the fundamental system modeling perspectives of context, interaction, structure, and behavior;

  • understand the principal diagram types in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and how these diagrams may be used in system modeling;

  • have been introduced to model-driven engineering, where an executable system is automatically generated from structural and behavioral models.

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