This column shows how to develop a fully refined use-case model. I hope some of the ideas about traceability and packaging are picked up by tool vendors (e.g., Rational, CA). The main concepts of this ...

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Embedded systems usually need only a UML core subset, consisting of use cases, classes and objects, and statecharts. In recent years, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been successfully used to ...