UML 2 For Dummies

Chapter 1: What’s UML About, Alfie?

The evolution of UML

Chapter 2: Following Best Practices

A little information hiding goes a long way

Chapter 3: Objects and Classes

Perfecting your class and object names

 Tip  Attributes and analysis

 Technical Stuff   What’s in an icon?

 Tip   Derived attributes

Chapter 4: Relating Objects That Work Together

Noname associations

Reading reflexive associations

Chapter 8: Introducing Use-Case Diagrams

Consider the stakeholders

Chapter 9: Defining the Inside of a Use Case

Use cases are not just descriptions

 Warning  Avoid the Happy Path

Chapter 14: Capturing How Objects Collaborate

Looping or selecting?

Chapter 18: Avoiding States of Confusion

Avoiding data-flow diagrams

Chapter 19: Deploying the System’s Components

Logical versus physical

Chapter 20: Breaking the System into Packages/Subsystems

Considering coupling and cohesion