Category: Unified Modeling Language

UML can be used as much or as little as you like. Martin Fowler describes three common ways that people tend to use UML: (1) UML as a sketch ; (2) UML as a blueprint ; (3) UML as a programming language.

A state machine diagram is a behavior which specifies the sequence of states an object visits during its lifetime in response to events, together with its responses to those events.

Use cases describe how users use the system to achieve specific goals. A use-case diagram consists of a system, related use cases, and actors, and relates them to each other to visualize: What is it describing? (System), who is using the system? What are the actors trying to achieve? Thus, use cases help ensure that the right system is developed by capturing requirements from the user’s point of view.

Visual Paradigm Online (VP Online) Free Edition is a free online drawing tool that supports UML, ERD, Organization Chart, etc. It features a simple, intuitive yet powerful UML editor, which allows you to create professional UML diagrams smoothly and quickly. The free UML tool comes with no ad, no limited period of access and no limitations such as, number of diagrams, number of shapes and etc. You own the diagrams you created for personal and non-commercial purposes.

A use case describes how a user uses a system to accomplish a specific goal. A use case diagram consists of a system, related use cases, and actors, and relates them to each other in order to visualize: what is being described? (the system), who is using the system? (actor) and what the actor wants to achieve? (use case), so that use cases help ensure that the right system is developed by capturing the requirements from the user’s perspective.