UML Demystified

by Paul Kimmel

Overview

There’s no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects

UML Demystified explains how to read, model, and use UML to create well-structured, stable software products. This self-teaching guide comes complete with key points, background information, quizzes at the end of each chapter, and even a final exam. Simple enough for beginners but challenging enough for advanced students, this is a lively and entertaining brush-up, introductory text, or classroom supplement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071486712
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/11/2005
Series:	Demystified
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	235
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Paul Kimmel (Okemos, MI) is the Chief Architect and a founder for Software Conceptions, Inc. He has been designing and implementing object-oriented software since 1990 and has a dozen or more years of experience with modeling languages and was an early adopter of the Unified Modeling Language. Paul has helped design and implement solutions using the UML for some of the larges coporations in the world from International Banks, Multinational Telecommunications companies, Logistics and Shipping companies, Department of Defense agencies and national and international governmental groups.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lines of Code Chapter 2: Start at the Beginning with Use Cases Chapter 3: Diagramming Features as Processes Chapter 4: Discovering Behaviors with Interaction Diagrams Chapter 5: What Are the Things That Describe My Problem? Chapter 6: Showing How Classes Are Related Chapter 7: Using State Chart Diagrams Chapter 8: Modeling Components Chapter 9: Fit and Finish Chapter 10: Visualizing Your Deployment Topology APPENDIX A: FINAL EXAM SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX