September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
4h 15m
English
book
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition
by Martin Fowler
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Chapter 2. Development Process
As I’ve already mentioned, the UML grew out of a bunch of OO analysis and design methods. To some extent, all of them mixed a graphical modeling language with a process that described how to go about developing software.
Interestingly, as the UML was formed, the various players discovered that although they could agree on a modeling language, they most certainly could not agree on a process. As a result, they agreed to leave any agreement on process until later and to confine the UML to being a modeling language.
The title of this book is UML Distilled, so I could have safely ignored process. However, I don’t believe that modeling techniques make any sense without knowing how they fit into a process. The way you use ...