Book Description

“Since its original introduction in 1997, the Unified Modeling Language has revolutionized software development. Every integrated software development environment in the world–open-source, standards-based, and proprietary–now supports UML and, more importantly, the model-driven approach to software development. This makes learning the newest UML standard, UML 2.0, critical for all software developers–and there isn’t a better choice than this clear, step-by-step guide to learning the language.”
–Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and CEO, OMG

If you’re like most software developers, you’re building systems that are increasingly complex. Whether you’re creating a desktop application or an enterprise system, complexity is the big hairy monster you must manage.

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) helps you manage this complexity. Whether you’re looking to use UML as a blueprint language, a sketch tool, or as a programming language, this book will give you the need-to-know information on how to apply UML to your project. While there are plenty of books available that describe UML, Learning UML 2.0 will show you how to use it. Topics covered include:

• Capturing your system’s requirements in your model to help you ensure that your designs meet your users’ needs
• Modeling the parts of your system and their relationships
• Modeling how the parts of your system work together to meet your system’s requirements
• Modeling how your system moves into the real world, capturing how your system will be deployed

Engaging and accessible, this book shows you how to use UML to craft and communicate your project’s design. Russ Miles and Kim Hamilton have written a pragmatic introduction to UML based on hard-earned practice, not theory. Regardless of the software process or methodology you use, this book is the one source you need to get up and running with UML 2.0. Additional information including exercises can be found at www.learninguml2.com.

Russ Miles is a software engineer for General Dynamics UK, where he works with Java and Distributed Systems, although his passion at the moment is Aspect Orientation and, in particular, AspectJ. Kim Hamilton is a senior software engineer at Northrop Grumman, where she’s designed and implemented a variety of systems including web applications and distributed systems, with frequent detours into algorithms development.

Book Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media (April 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596009828
• ISBN-13: 978-0596009823

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Book Description

This book covers all you need to know to model and design software applications from use cases to software architectures in UML and shows how to apply the COMET UML-based modeling and design method to real-world problems. The author describes architectural patterns for various architectures, such as broker, discovery, and transaction patterns for service-oriented architectures, and addresses software quality attributes including maintainability, modifiability, testability, traceability, scalability, reusability, performance, availability, and security. Complete case studies illustrate design issues for different software architectures: a banking system for client/server architecture, an online shopping system for service-oriented architecture, an emergency monitoring system for component-based software architecture, and an automated guided vehicle for real-time software architecture. Organized as an introduction followed by several short, self-contained chapters, the book is perfect for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in software engineering and design, and for experienced software engineers wanting a quick reference at each stage of the analysis, design, and development of large-scale software systems.

Review
“In Software Modeling and Design, Hassan Gomaa provides a clear, lucid presentation of a comprehensive software design method, based on industry-standard design notation, and battletested in the context of graduate-level software engineering courses taught at George Mason University. The book includes four, diverse case studies, showing readers how to apply the method to solve industrial-scale software design problems. These traits make this book unique within the field of software design and engineering.”
–Kevin Mills, NIST

“This book presents a general, complete, and precise engineering solution, illustrated by many thorough examples, for model-based architecture and design. I strongly recommend it to anybody who wants to teach, or get acquainted with, the practice of modeling software. Beyond notation, this book focuses on fundamental and practical modeling and architecting principles.”
–Lionel Briand, Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo

“This is a ‘must have’ book for any senior technologist actively involved in the software development life cycle. It provides not only principles of software architecture, design and development but also practical examples of how to apply these techniques to produce high-quality, maintainable and extensible software. Dr. Gomaa, a recognized thought leader in software engineering, hits another home run with this volume.”
–Mark Gianturco, Intelligent Discovery Solutions

“Software modeling and designing are complex activities. Developing high quality models, particularly by novice analysts, requires a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of modeling as well as its nuances. This book provides a comprehensive coverage of modeling the static and dynamic aspects of software systems and architectures. It presents a fresh perspective on software modeling and design through the application of the UML based COMET (Collaborative Object Modeling and Architectural Design Method) approach to real world examples. Dr Gomaa has done an excellent job of presenting the material in a simple and elegant manner. The fundamental concepts have been explained with lots of examples and further solidified through several case studies presented at the end of the book. Overall, this is an excellent book on software modeling and design that will be valuable for not only software engineering students but also practitioners.”
–Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan

“Software modeling continues to dominate as a method of choice for practitioners to gain an in-depth understanding of complex systems. Gomaa’s book stands out from other titles on software modeling in both its breadth and depth of coverage. Its detailed case studies are second to none when it comes to really seeing how modeling can be applied in practice.”
–Jon Whittle, Lancaster University

“The COMET method is a unique UML-based approach covering theories and practices for modeling and design of software systems. This book is the core of author’s experiences and philosophy on software development.”
–Michael Shin, Texas Tech University

Book Details

• Hardcover: 592 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9780521764148
• ISBN-13: 978-0521764148

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Book Description

A coherent and integrated account of the leading UML 2 semantics work and the practical applications of UML semantics developmentWith contributions from leading experts in the field, the book begins with an introduction to UML and goes on to offer in-depth and up-to-date coverage of:

• The role of semantics
• Considerations and rationale for a UML system model
• Definition of the UML system model
• UML descriptive semantics
• Axiomatic semantics of UML class diagrams
• The object constraint language
• Axiomatic semantics of state machines
• A coalgebraic semantic framework for reasoning about interaction designs
• Semantics of activity diagrams
• Verification of UML models
• State invariants
• Model transformation specification and verification

Additionally, readers are provided with expert guidance on how to resolve semantic problems and a section on applications of UML semantics with model analysis. UML 2 Semantics and Applications is an ideal resource for researchers and tool-builders working in UML, among others. It is also an excellent textbook for postgraduate teaching and research.

Book Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (October, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470409088
• ISBN-13: 978-0470409084

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Book Description

Design patterns are elegant, adaptable, and reusable solutions to everyday software development problems. Programmers use design patterns to organize objects in programs, making them easier to write and modify. C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial is a practical guide to writing C# programs using the most common patterns.

This tutorial begins with clear and concise introductions to C#, object-oriented programming and inheritance, and UML diagrams. Each chapter that follows describes one of twenty-three design patterns, recommends when to use it, and explains the impact that it will have on the larger design. The use of every pattern is demonstrated with simple example programs. These programs are illustrated with screen shots and UML diagrams displaying how the classes interact. Each of these programs is available on the companion CD-ROM and can be run, examined, edited, and applied.

Design patterns will have an immediate impact on your work as you learn the following:

Design patterns will not only enhance your productivity, but once you see how quickly and easily object-oriented code can be recycled, they will become an everyday part of your C# programming.

About the Author
James W. Cooper is a research staff member in the Advanced Information Retrieval and Analysis Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He is also a columnist for Java Pro magazine and a reviewer for Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal. He has published 14 books, which include Principles of Object-Oriented Programming Using Java 1.1 (Ventana) and The Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to Java (Ventana).

Book Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (September, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201844532
• ISBN-13: 978-0201844535

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Book Description

If you want to use Visio for Enterprise Architects to quickly design and create enterprise software, this is the book for you.

The integration of Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect and Visio for Enterprise Architects is a formidable combination. Visio offers powerful diagramming capabilities, including such things as creating UML models, mapping out and generating databases, and aiding the development of distributed systems. Visio’s integration with Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect means that C# or Visual Basic(r) .NET code can be generated from UML diagrams, thus giving your projects a significant kick-start, and Visual Studio .NET projects can also be reverse engineered to UML models.

This book will finally help you make the most of Visio’s time- and labor-saving features, and unleash Visio’s power for your enterprise development.

To use this book you must be comfortable with the basic concepts of UML.

What you will learn from this book
* Diagramming business components in Visio
* Generating code from UML models
* Reverse engineering Visual Studio .NET projects into UML models, with or without source code
* Documenting projects with UML and Visio
* Designing distributed applications with Visio diagrams
* Using Object-Role Modeling and round-trip engineering for database design

“This book will definitely help any developer wishing to get a jump-start on using Visio for Enterprise Architects in their traditional development process. The book meshes traditional UML knowledge with .NET development model specifics, resulting in a deep understanding of how Visio for Enterprise Architects can speed up software design and development time.”
-Andrew Krowczyk, Senior Software Developer, Zurich North America

Book Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (December 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764543768
• ISBN-13: 978-0764543760

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Book Description

A comprehensive reference for an executable UML and the advantages of modeling This book presents the most up-to-date technology for rapidly developing information systems using the object-oriented paradigm and models, and establishes an executable profile of UML for such model-driven development. As a software developer, architect, or analyst, you’ll benefit from learning how information systems can be developed more efficiently using the object-oriented paradigm and model-driven approach.

Written by an expert who is uniquely qualified in the topic, this Wrox reference offers a profile of UML that is formal and executable, instead of the relational paradigm or its incomplete coupling with object orientation. It provides a comprehensive tutorial on model-driven development and UML.

• Provides an in-depth tutorial on using model-driven development and UML for building information systems, with extensive examples
• Includes tutorials and critics of traditional IS modeling paradigms, such as the relational paradigm, entity-relationship modeling, and the widely used incomplete coupling of object orientation with relational databases
• Covers basic object-oriented concepts with UML semantics, like classes and data types, attributes, associations, generalizations, operations and methods
• Proposes new powerful concepts for rapid development of information systems including contemporary user interfaces, such as programming by demonstration and others

Model-Driven Development with Executable UML offers a thorough education in this complex topic.

From the Back Cover
Motivated by the viewpoint that software development efficiency can most certainly be improved, author Dragan Milicev proposes a technique that raises the level of abstraction and reduces accidental complexity in software development. This comprehensive reference focuses on an executable profile of UML and a method that allows you to save significant time and avoid human error by using modeling.

Serving as an in-depth tutorial on model-driven development, this book places special emphasis on information systems and describes in detail just what is meant by this term. You’ll discover how information systems can be understood better and developed more efficiently by using the object paradigm, model-driven development, and a profile of UML that is formal and executable. Helpful examples demonstrate the development process and show how to use UML for building information systems. An extensive overview describes the fundamental concepts of object orientation, and further discussions review the full coupling of object orientation with information systems development and how challenges with this development can be handled.

What you will learn from this book

• The characteristics of information systems, and process models for their development
• Advantages and common problems with popular technologies for building information systems and how they affect development
• An introduction to the object paradigm as applied to building information systems
• Concepts and parts of UML that are likely needed in building information systems

Who this book is for
This book is for software practitioners who analyze, specify, design, model, develop, or test information systems and are interested in improving their knowledge and productivity by exploiting model-driven rapid application development with an executable UML.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.

Book Details

• Paperback: 816 pages
• Publisher: Wrox (July 7, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470481633
• ISBN-13: 978-0470481639