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
There are a lot of object oriented design tools can be used for software development. Rational Rose®, Visio, and PowerDesign are three most popular UML modeling tools used in software development. 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. The Rational Rose® product family provides a set of model-driven capabilities for developing Java Platform, UNIX and Linux Platforms, and Microsoft Visual Studio-based software applications. Rational Rose® allows software developers to generate code for Java Enterprise Edition software applications from visual models using the UML. 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/