UML- Unified Modeling Language

Acknowledgements
 Slides material are taken from different
sources including:
 the slides of Mr. Shiyuan Jin’s UML class, EEL 4884, Fall 2003.

 Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering, Sixth

Edition, WCB/McGraw-Hill, 2005 Stephen R. Schach

 UML resource page http://www.uml.org/

Outline
 What is UML and why we use UML?

 How to use UML diagrams to design

software system?

 What UML Modeling tools we use today?

What is UML and Why we use UML?

 UML → “Unified Modeling Language”

 Language: express idea, not a methodology

 Modeling: Describing a software system at a high

level of abstraction

 Unified: UML has become a world standard

Object Management Group (OMG): www.omg.org
What is UML and Why we use UML?

 More description about UML:

 It is a industry-standard graphical language for specifying, visualizing,
constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems

 The UML uses mostly graphical notations to express the OO analysis

and design of software projects.

 Simplifies the complex process of software design

What is UML and Why we use UML?

 Why we use UML?

 Use graphical notation: more clearly than natural language
(imprecise) and code (too detailed).

 Help acquire an overall view of a system.

 UML is not dependent on any one language or technology.

 UML moves us from fragmentation to standardization.

What is UML and Why we use UML?
Year Version
2003: UML 2.0
2001: UML 1.4
1999: UML 1.3
1997: UML 1.0, 1.1
1996: UML 0.9 & 0.91
1995: Unified Method 0.8

Booch ‘93 OMT - 2

Other methods

Booch ‘91
OMT - 1
How to use UML diagrams to
design software system?
 Types of UML Diagrams:
 Use Case Diagram
 Class Diagram
 Sequence Diagram
 Collaboration Diagram
 State Diagram

This is only a subset of diagrams … but are most widely used

Use-Case Diagrams
 A use-case diagram is a set of use cases
 A use case is a model of the interaction between
 External users of a software product (actors) and
 The software product itself
 More precisely, an actor is a user playing a specific role

 describing a set of user scenarios

 capturing user requirements
 contract between end user and software developers
 Use-Case Diagrams
Boundary Use Case
Actor Library System

Borrow Employee
Client

Order Title

Fine Remittance

Supervisor
 Use-Case Diagrams
 Actors: A role that a user plays with respect to the system, including human
users and other systems. e.g., inanimate physical objects (e.g. robot); an
external system that needs some information from the current system.

 Use case: A set of scenarios that describing an interaction between a user

and a system, including alternatives.

 System boundary: rectangle diagram representing the boundary between

the actors and the system.
Use-Case Diagrams
 Association:
communication between an actor and a use case; Represented by a solid line.

 Generalization: relationship between one general use case and a special use
case (used for defining special alternatives) Represented by a line with a
triangular arrow head toward the parent use case.
Use-Case Diagrams
Include: a dotted line labeled <<include>> beginning at base
use case and ending with an arrows pointing to the include use
case. The include relationship occurs when a chunk of
behavior is similar across more than one use case. Use
“include” in stead of copying the description of that behavior.
<<include>>

Extend: a dotted line labeled <<extend>> with an arrow toward

the base case. The extending use case may add behavior to the
base use case. The base class declares “extension points”.

<<extend>>
Use-Case Diagrams

Figure 16.12
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Use-Case Diagrams
 Both Make Appointment
and Request Medication
include Check Patient
Record as a subtask
(include)

 The extension point is

written inside the base
case Pay bill; the
extending class Defer
payment adds the
behavior of this extension
point. (extend)

 Pay Bill is a parent use

case and Bill Insurance
is the child use case.
(generalization)

(TogetherSoft, Inc)
Class diagram
 A class diagram depicts classes and their interrelationships

 Used for describing structure and behavior in the use cases

 Provide a conceptual model of the system in terms of

entities and their relationships

 Used for requirement capture, end-user interaction

 Detailed class diagrams are used for developers

Class diagram
 Each class is represented by a rectangle subdivided into three
compartments
 Name
 Attributes
 Operations

 Modifiers are used to indicate visibility of attributes and

operations.
 ‘+’ is used to denote Public visibility (everyone)
 ‘#’ is used to denote Protected visibility (friends and derived)
 ‘-’ is used to denote Private visibility (no one)

 By default, attributes are hidden and operations are visible.

Class diagram
Name
Account_Name
- Customer_Name
Attributes
- Balance
+addFunds( ) Operations
+withDraw( )
+transfer( )
OO Relationships

 There are two kinds of Relationships

 Generalization (parent-child relationship)
 Association (student enrolls in course)

 Associations can be further classified as

 Aggregation
 Composition
 OO Relationships: Generalization

Supertype Example: Customer

Regular Loyalty
Customer Customer

Subtype1 Subtype2
-Inheritance is a required feature of object orientation
-Generalization expresses a parent/child relationship among related classes.
-Used for abstracting details in several layers
 OO Relationships: Association

 Represent relationship between instances of classes

 Student enrolls in a course
 Courses have students
 Courses have exams
 Etc.

 Association has two ends

 Role names (e.g. enrolls)
 Multiplicity (e.g. One course can have many students)
 Navigability (unidirectional, bidirectional)
 Association: Multiplicity and Roles
student
1 *
University Person

0..1 *
employer teacher

Multiplicity Role
Symbol Meaning
1 One and only one Role
0..1 Zero or one “A given university groups many people;
M..N From M to N (natural language)
some act as students, others as teachers.
A given student belongs to a single
* From zero to any positive integer university; a given teacher may or may not
0..* From zero to any positive integer be working for the university at a particular
1..* From one to any positive integer time.”
Class diagram

[from UML Distilled Third Edition]

Association: Model to Implementation

* 4
Student Course
has enrolls

Class Student {
Course enrolls[4];
}

Class Course {
Student have[];
}
 OO Relationships: Composition

Whole Class
Class W Association
Models the part–whole relationship

Composition
Class P1 Class P2 Also models the part–whole relationship but, in
addition, Every part may belong to only one
whole, and If the whole is deleted, so are the
Part Classes parts
[From Dr.David A. Workman]
Example Example:
A number of different chess boards: Each square
belongs to only one board. If a chess board is
thrown away, all 64 squares on that board go as well.

Figure 16.7
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 OO Relationships: Aggregation

Container Class
Aggregation:
Class C expresses a relationship among instances of related
classes. It is a specific kind of Container-
AGGREGATION
Containee relationship.

Class E1 Class E2
express a more informal relationship than
composition expresses.

Containee Classes Aggregation is appropriate when Container and

Containees have no special access privileges to
each other.
Example
Bag

Apples Milk

[From Dr.David A. Workman]

Aggregation vs. Composition
Composition is really a strong form of association
components have only one owner
components cannot exist independent of their owner
components live or die with their owner
e.g. Each car has an engine that can not be shared with other cars.

Aggregations
may form "part of" the association, but may not be essential to it. They
may also exist independent of the aggregate. e.g. Apples may exist
independent of the bag.
Good Practice: CRC Card
Class Responsibility Collaborator
 easy to describe how classes work by moving cards around; allows to
quickly consider alternatives.
Object Diagrams
Interaction Diagrams
 show how objects interact with one another

 UML supports two types of interaction

diagrams
 Sequence diagrams
 Collaboration diagrams
Sequence Diagram(make a phone call)
Caller Phone Recipient

Picks up

Dial tone

Dial

Ring notification Ring

Picks up

Hello
Sequence Diagram:Object interaction
A B
Self-Call: A message that an
Synchronous
Object sends to itself.

Condition: indicates when a Asynchronous

message is sent. The message is
Transmission
sent only if the condition is true. delayed

[condition] remove()
Condition
*[for each] remove()
Iteration

Self-Call
 Sequence Diagrams – Object Life Spans
 Creation
A
 Create message

 Object life starts at that point

Create
 Activation B
 Symbolized by rectangular stripes

 Place on the lifeline where object

is activated.
 Rectangle also denotes when

object is deactivated.
Deletion Activation bar
X
 Return
 Placing an ‘X’ on lifeline
Deletion
 Object’s life ends at that point Lifeline
 Sequence Diagram
User Message Catalog Reservations

•Sequence diagrams demonstrate

the behavior of objects in a use case 1: look up ()

by describing the objects and the 2: title data ()

messages they pass.
3: [not available] reserve title ()

4 : title returned ()
•The horizontal dimension shows the
objects participating in the interaction. 5: hold title ()

5 : title available ()

•The vertical arrangement of 6 : borrow title ()

messages indicates their order.
6 : remove reservation ()

•The labels may contain the seq. # to

indicate concurrency.
 Interaction Diagrams: Collaboration diagrams

start

6: remove reservation

3 : [not available] reserve title

User Reservations

5: title available
6 : borrow title
1: look up
2: title data

4 : title returned
Catalog

5 : hold title
Collaboration diagrams are equivalent to sequence diagrams. All the features of sequence
diagrams are equally applicable to collaboration diagrams

Use a sequence diagram when the transfer of information is the focus of attention

Use a collaboration diagram when concentrating on the classes

 State Diagrams (Billing Example)

State Diagrams show the sequences of states an object goes through

during its life cycle in response to stimuli, together with its responses and
actions; an abstraction of all possible behaviors.

Start End
Unpaid Paid
Invoice created paying Invoice destroying
State Diagrams (Traffic light example)

Traffic Light Start

State
Transition Red

Yellow

Green

Event
What UML Modeling tools we use today?
 List of UML tools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UML_tools

 ArgoUML: http://argouml.tigris.org/

 Rational Rose (www.rational.com) by IBM

 UML Studio 7.1 ( http://www.pragsoft.com/) by Pragsoft Corporation:

Capable of handling very large models (tens of thousands of classes).
Educational License US$ 125.00; Freeware version.

 TogetherSoft Control Center; TogetherSoft Solo

(http://www.borland.com/together/index.html) by Borland
Conclusion
 UML is a standardized specification language
for object modeling
 Several UML diagrams:
 use-case diagram: a number of use cases (use case models the interaction
between actors and software)
 Class diagram: a model of classes showing the static relationships among them
including association and generalization.
 Sequence diagram: shows the way objects interact with one another as
messages are passed between them. Dynamic model
 State diagram: shows states, events that cause transitions between states.
Another dynamic model reflecting the behavior of objects and how they react to
specific event

 There are several UML tools available

Thank you