Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2008 issue’s content:
* UML versus Domain-Specific Languages
* We Increment to Adapt, We Iterate to Improve
* Building Products with Acceptance TDD
* Getting and Keeping Control over your Project
60 pages of software development knowledge.
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This book from Henriette Baumann, Philippe Baumann and Patrick Graessle is a very good introduction to the power of modeling with UML. After an initial presentation of the basic principles of modeling and UML, the book presents the diagrams used to model both business and software views of systems. The final part is devoted to the models that can be used for system integration.
All the diagrams are presented through the same case study. This book does not claim to be a detailed presentation of UML. It achieves with its case …