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Volume 49 ,  Issue 5  (May 2006) table of contents
Two decades of the language-action perspective
Pages: 109 - 113  
Year of Publication: 2006
ISSN:0001-0782
Authors
Brian Dobing  University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Jeffrey Parsons  Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Many UML projects are not Use Case driven.


REFERENCES

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Dobing, B. and Parsons, J. Understanding the role of Use Cases in UML: A review and research agenda. Journal of Database Management 11, 4 (2000), 28--36.
 
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Ivar Jacobson , Grady Booch , James Rumbaugh, The unified software development process, Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Boston, MA, 1999
 
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Ivar Jacobson, Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach, Addison Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., Redwood City, CA, 2004
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Cris Kobryn, Will UML 2.0 be agile or awkward?, Communications of the ACM, v.45 n.1, January 2002  [doi>10.1145/502269.502306]
 
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James Rumbaugh , Michael Blaha , William Premerlani , Frederick Eddy , William Lorensen, Object-oriented modeling and design, Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1991
 
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Keng Siau , Qing Cao, How complex is the unified modeling language?, Advanced topics in database research vol. 1, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey, PA, 2003
 
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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.1 Requirements/Specifications
  D.3 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
      D.3.2 Language Classifications

          Nouns: UML


General Terms:
Languages


REVIEW

"Andrew Brooks : Reviewer"

A Web survey on unified modeling language (UML) usage was carried out between March 2003 and March 2004. It yielded 171 usable responses from analysts using UML. Object, component, and deployment diagrams were excluded from the survey. Results ind  more...

Collaborative Colleagues:
Brian Dobing: colleagues
Jeffrey Parsons: colleagues

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