Executable UML is for students who want to apply object-oriented analysis and modeling techniques to real-world UML projects. Leon Starr presents the skills and techniques needed to build useful class models for creating precise, executable software specifications that generate target code in multiple languages and for multiple platforms. Leon, who wrote the definitive guide to Shlaer-Mellor modeling, emphasizes the practical use of executable UML modeling, presenting extensive examples from real-time embedded and scientific applications. Using the materials in his How to Build Shlaer-Mellor Object Models as a starting point, Leon presents an entirely new introduction to Executable UML, expresses all diagrams in Executable UML notation, and adds advanced new object modeling techniques.

• Executable UML, in detail—Introduces the Executable UML graphical specification language, which combines a subset of UML graphical notation with executable semantics and timing rules. Executable UML can be used to build a fully executable system specification consisting of class, state, and action models that can be run, tested, debugged, optimized for performance, and translated directly into code.

  • Introduces breakthrough techniques students can use to create rigorous, testable, complete UML specifications—and dramatically improve the quality, reliability, and value of any software system. Ex.___

• Extensive real-time and embedded application examples—Provides scientific and technical examples not found in any other UML guidebook.

  • Gives engineering and technology students unprecedented insight into UML, while at the same time offering disciplined techniques that are powerfully effective in business application design. Ex.___

• Focused, in-depth coverage of class modeling—Covers classes, attributes, associations, relationships, binary associations, association classes, specialization-generalization relationships, model constraints and descriptions, and reflexive, network, linear, and tree patterns for effective object modeling.

  • Gives students the most detailed and sophisticated class modeling techniques available. Ex.___

• By Leon Starr, the leading expert in building object models for real-time systems, and author of How to Build Shlaer-Mellor Object Models and Executable UML: A Case Study.

  • = Gives students state-of-the-art techniques and skills from one of the world's leading experts. . Ex.___

LEON STARR has been developing real-time and embedded software with executable models since 1985. His models have been used in factory material transport control systems, ultrasound diagnostic and cardiac pacing systems, gas chromatography and semiconductor wafer inspection systems, video post-production systems, and networked military battle simulators. The author of How to Build Shlaer-Mellor Object Models and Executable UML: A Case Study, he is a founding member and senior consultant at Model Integration, LLC in San Francisco, CA.