Software architecture relies heavily on modeling techniques to describe, analyze, and verify system designs. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is widely recognized as both a de facto and de jure ...

The architecture of a software system is a critical artifact in the software lifecycle and should be evaluated as early as possible. Recent efforts to software architecture evaluation are concentrated ...

Learn how to use four types of UML diagrams to document the structure, behavior, and interactions of your software components.

Abstract In large software development projects, there is always a need for refactoring and optimization of the design. Usually software designs are represented using UML diagrams (e.g., class ...

The last two articles have explored the five steps to designing an embedded software architecture. So far, we have seen a need in modern embedded systems to separate software architecture into ...

Abandoning UML is all very well but, in the race for agility, many software development teams have lost the ability to communicate visually too. The example NoUML software architecture sketches ...

In the new Visio, we have re-envisioned our Unified Modeling Language (UML) templates in a fresh, modern way. We updated our five most popular UML diagrams, with all new shapes to make it easier and ...