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This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

Since the early 1980's, modeling has been prescribed for helpingsoftware developers to understand their systems as they analyze theproblem, design a solution, and implement and deliver an ...

This article proposes an object-oriented analysis (OOA) technique based on the unified modeling language (UML). The technique emphasizes its OOA process, that is composed of the following activities: ...