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The unified modelling language (UML) is a visual modelling language for software systems. It was developed by Jim Rumbaugh, Grady Booch, and Ivar Jacobson at Rational Corporation as a notation for modelling object-oriented systems. It provides a visual means of specifying, constructing and documenting object-oriented systems, and facilitates the understanding of the architecture of the system, and managing the complexity of a large system.
The language was strongly influenced by three methods: the Object Modelling Technique (OMT) developed by Rumbaught; the Booch Method developed by Booch, and Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) developed by Jacobson. UML unifies and improves upon these methods, and it has become a popular formal approach to modelling software systems.
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Jacobson I, Booch G, Rumbaugh J (1999) The unified software modelling language user guide. Addison-Wesley, Reading
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O’Regan, G. (2014). Unified Modelling Language. In: Introduction to Software Quality. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06106-1_19
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