You Will Learn How To
- Model software and nonsoftware systems using UML 2
- Capture and document user requirements using use cases
- Generate and interpret UML models using the complete diagramming notation
- Use CASE tools to build and manipulate fully featured UML models
- Ensure consistency and accuracy throughout all diagrams
- Represent design patterns in UML
Course Benefits
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the industry-standard notation for producing the models of a system. In this course, you learn to generate and interpret UML models as applied to a wide range of activities using the significant extensions and enhancements of UML 2. These skills are put into practice using a market-leading CASE tool.
Who Should Attend
Designers, programmers, project managers and all other personnel involved in systems development. UML practitioners who wish to update their skills to UML 2 will also benefit. Knowledge of object-oriented techniques is helpful but not required.
Hands-On Training
You gain hands-on UML experience using CASE tools. Exercises include:
- Modeling system requirements and business processes with use cases
- Forward- and reverse-engineering between UML models and code
- Representing system structure using class and object diagrams
- Modeling behaviour with interaction, state machine and activity diagrams
- Generating HTML and textual documentation
- Producing interrelated diagrams in a large system model
Course Content
Introduction to UML
Speaking a common language
- The importance of modeling
- Enabling concise communication
Elements of UML
- Building blocks: things, relationships and diagrams
- Architectural views: use case, design, implementation, process and deployment
- Levels of detail: visualisation, specification and construction
Object-oriented concepts
- Objects and classes
- Links and relationships
- Inheritance and polymorphism
Modeling the Structure of a System
Specifying classes
- Representing information as attributes
- Representing functionality as operations
Identifying relationships between classes
- Dependencies
- Associations
- Aggregation and composition
- Generalisation
Object and class diagrams: the core of UML
- Showing classes and their relationships
- Depicting snapshots using object diagrams
Extending UML
- Standard and user-defined stereotypes
- Adding properties with tagged values
- Extending semantics with constraints
- The Object Constraint Language (OCL)
Modeling the Behaviour of a System
Use case diagrams: describing user requirements
- Representing systems boundaries
- Actors and use cases
- Notations for refinement
Sequence and communication diagrams: depicting typical event scenarios
- Events and signals
- Showing time-ordered behaviour
- Expanding use cases into the developers' view
- Converting between sequence and communication diagrams
Expressing real-time aspects
- Synchronous/asynchronous messages
- Representing timing constraints and transmission delays
Specifying actions
- Describing action semantics
- Mapping semantics to action languages
Representing State Machines
State machine diagrams: capturing state-dependent behaviour
- States, transitions and events
- Concurrent substates
- History and synch states
Activity diagrams: specifying behavioural logic
- Modeling workflows
- Partitioning activities using swimlanes
- Concurrency and synchronisation of parallel activities
Architectural Modeling
Packages and interfaces
- Distinguishing between classes/interfaces
- Exposing class and package interfaces
- Subscribing to interfaces
Component and deployment diagrams
- Describing dependencies
- Deploying components across threads, processes and processors
Design patterns
- Patterns, mechanisms and frameworks
- Representing design patterns
Applying UML
Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
- The Meta-Object Facility (MOF)
- Common Warehouse Meta-model (CWM)
Life cycle stages
- Using UML within the Unified Process
- Modeling business processes
- Capturing requirements
- Systems analysis
- Software design
|
<< Back to Systems Analysis Course List
Related Courses
UML and Unified Modeling Language are trademarks of the Object Management Group. The UML cube logo is used by permission of the OMG.
E-mail a Colleague
Print Friendly
FAQ
Course Details PDF
