by Jordi Cabot | Jan 10, 2013 | cloud & web engineering, tools, UML and OCL
Guest post by Eliza Wright from Lucidchart, a new player in the software modeling world. Enter Eliza talking about UML modeling using HTML5 with Lucidchart. Lucidchart is a great tool for sketching out requirements for UML specifications on a development project. If...
by Jordi Cabot | Dec 11, 2012 | tools, UML and OCL
Based on the PlantUML textual syntax, Renderist is a cloud-based application that allows you to render UML diagram online from a textual UML syntax following a simple three-step process: Write your diagram using one of supported syntax (including PlantUML for UML...
by Jordi Cabot | Nov 20, 2012 | repository, UML and OCL
Via Andrea Baruffaldi (with whom I coordinate the UML Lovers LinkedIn Group, feel free to join us!) I have discovered the UML Diagrams Examples site. The site includes several examples of most UML diagrams. Even though there are some errors (same as when anybody...
by Jordi Cabot | Nov 15, 2012 | tools, UML and OCL
Dresden OCL has been around for more than 10 years but has never been featured in this portal which is a shame. To fix this, I contacted Claas Wilke and Birgit Demuth and ask them to write a brief introduction to Dresden OCL for the portal readers. Hope you enjoy it...
by Jordi Cabot | Aug 1, 2012 | opinion, UML and OCL
A colleague asked me if OCL had a getType function in the standard library that could be used to get the type of an object. The answer, AFAIK, is no. There are the oclIsKindOf(Type) and oclIsTypeOf(Type) functions to test whether an object is instance of a given type...
by Jordi Cabot | Jun 27, 2012 | quality, UML and OCL
Most domain models include a number of constraints which frequently deal with text data (e.g. checking the right format of a telephone field or checking the uniqueness of a street+city name). As all constraints, we may make mistakes when defining them and end up with...
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