CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2013/ch1 1w48 x
Introduction
The Unified Modeling Language(UML) is a standardized language approved by the Objective Management Group™ (OMG™). UML is used for sepcifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting models in software systems.
O-O Design Tools
Rational Rose®, Visio, and PowerDesign are three most popular UML modeling tools used in software engineering. Rational Rose® is a set of UML modeling tools for software design, which is produced and marketed by the Rational division of IBM (previous Rational Software Corporation). By use of Rational Rose® software engineers can create visual models of software architectures, databases, application requirements and reusable assets. List of Tools, most of them are released before 2007. Compare them
Agile Development
Examples
O-O Design Tools example. Rational Rose
Hyperlinks to important terms
UML
List of UML Modeling tools
How to choose a UML modeling tool
Rational Rose
Microsoft Visio
PowerDesign
IBM Rational Software's UML Resource Page http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/uml/