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A Critique of UML’s Definition of the Use-Case Class

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«UML» 2003 - The Unified Modeling Language. Modeling Languages and Applications (UML 2003)

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UML is revealed to contain three different defects concerning the use-case class that were buried in OOSE and handed over to it. These defects are: 1) the use-case class and its instance are unusually defined, 2) a conjecture that is against the definition of the class is introduced without any reasons, and 3) the execution procedure of a use-case instance does not actually work because of some flaws concerning the execution control. These defects have been causing unnecessary confusion in UML’s specification of the use-case class. An object-oriented real-world model is built that represents a typical situation of using a use case in the analysis and design stages, and another definition of the use-case class is constructed that successfully solves the problems.

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  1. Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, 441-8580, Japan

    Sadahiro Isoda

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  1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh,  

    Perdita Stevens

  2. Computing Department - InfoLab21, Lancaster University, LA1 4WA, Lancaster, UK

    Jon Whittle

  3. IBM Rational, P.O. Box 9027, CO 80301-9027, Boulder, USA

    Grady Booch

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Isoda, S. (2003). A Critique of UML’s Definition of the Use-Case Class. In: Stevens, P., Whittle, J., Booch, G. (eds) «UML» 2003 - The Unified Modeling Language. Modeling Languages and Applications. UML 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2863. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45221-8_24

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