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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Should I learn UML 2.0? Post 302098133 by cbkihong on Thursday 30th of November 2006 08:24:37 PM

11-30-2006

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For software engineering, yes, at least most people will say yes. For software development, yes and no. To communicate with those software engineers who do use UML, yes. To use tools which require UML, yes. To make those pillow-thick specifications full of design diagrams as demanded by some large companies, yes. Otherwise, no.

But considering UML is just a way, albeit commonly agreed, to modeling, provided you can communicate your design to others, I see no reason to reject any usage of some variations of UML or even something totally different for representation.

I'm somewhat a software engineer. I have not formally learned UML (actually I have scratched the surface - that was when I was still in university some years ago) but over time I found myself not totally adhering to UML most of the time. Frankly I don't do diagrammatic modeling and design that much. Most of the time, I just build class interfaces as prototypes directly and then fill in the code without using any modeling tools (I don't have money to ever touch any of them). I may also choose to prototype in a language that I know best (that will most likely be some scripting language such as PHP or Perl), and then porting that design eventually to the platform I need to support (such as Java, or C[++]).

If one day you somehow get the chance to use some RAD toolts like Rational Rose, then UML will be a must because that's what it uses.

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