Comment by pbhjpbhj
5 years ago
My impression as an undergrad learning UML was that it gave an architectural level view - so the effort would go in at a different level of thinking, not just in a different part of the process?
5 years ago
My impression as an undergrad learning UML was that it gave an architectural level view - so the effort would go in at a different level of thinking, not just in a different part of the process?
Yeah it turned into that before kinda dying. Now in the "real world" those tools are only used for diagrams that explain what's called a "slice" of the architecture, but no one really gives a whole architectural view of a system on UML. Not even for a simple component.
But the glimpse you got of it as an undergrad was UML trying to give it's last kick before dying. The whole quest for a formal definition and a standard for it doesn't make sense if you only want to use it to give an architectural level view.