Importance of UML in Object Oriented Software Projects.

Running head: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
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Introduction..............................................................................................................................................2
Advantage of using UML in Object oriented software projects..............................................................2
Conclusion...............................................................................................................................................6
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2SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
Introduction
The report will discuss about the importance of UML in bringing the success towards OO
software projects today. Object oriented software engineering is a methodology and object modelling
language. Ivar Jacobson developed Object oriented software engineering in 1992 (Larman 2014).
UML is a standard language used for constructing, specifying, visualising and for documenting
artefacts associated with developing a software system. The system used can be a software or non-
software system. The report will describe the importance of using UML with object oriented software
projects in detail.
Advantage of using UML in Object oriented software projects
The main feature offered by object oriented software is encapsulation and inheritance.
Encapsulation ensures that the data and method that are wrapped up into one unit cannot be accessed
by outside world and inheritance ensures the reusability of codes. This includes deriving classes from
pre-existing classes and inheriting the features of pre-existing class. This ensures that no one can
affect the programmer’s attention. The main features offered are information hiding, dynamic binding,
data abstraction and inheritance (Cox 2016). The benefits of using object oriented software are it
offers reusability of code, naturalness, modularity and deferred commitment.
UML works with the aim of providing a syntactically, semantically rich visual modelling
language. UML is having application beyond the software development and this includes flow in
manufacturing. The main objective of UML is defining a simple modelling mechanism that will help
in modelling every type of practical system that are used in today’s complex environment. UML is not
a programing language but with the help off several tools this can be used for code generation in
different other languages with the help of UML diagrams. UML is having a relation with object
oriented analysis and design (Schroeder, Lorensen and Martin 2014). There are 9 types of UML
diagrams this are activity diagram, use case diagram, interaction overview diagram, state machine