Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.42!gegeweb.eu!nntpfeed.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!217.73.144.45.MISMATCH!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:41:46 -0500 From: Leif Roar Moldskred Subject: Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++,comp.lang.java.programmer References: <7b5978a1-16bd-4700-acd8-b6446f5c3218@j4g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: tin/2.0.0-20110823 ("Ardenistiel") (UNIX) (Linux/3.0.0-22-generic-pae (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:41:46 -0500 Lines: 17 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-tscpmwgUnmpGC4+zN2mmmItGs3MFPTLJfsbvLjitUcHp+OIShdc9YDmawIaIV+knAKDUbRJDjpkeZPs!8GlDIdM2i0VICP/yJcPlcwO/CH7WtPlyvViZNU+EXlwaJKYhFXUc/7jaE0MyLeCziIuH5ww65UI= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1726 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:16124 In comp.lang.java.programmer Ramon F. Herrera wrote: > > I guess my question should be: Under what circumstances is advisable > to use UML? When it helps you to think and reason about the system you're developing and when it helps to communicate information about the system to other people working on it. The above might sound glib, but it really is an honest answer. The particulars of when those conditions occurs is going to depend on you, your coworkers, your tools, the size and complexity and domain of the system and the organization and business culture the work's being done in. -- Leif Roar Moldskred