Unified Modeling Language

software system design modeling tool

list of actions or event steps typically defining the interactions between a user role and a system to achieve a goal

UML use case diagram

American software engineer

Swedish computer scientist

technology standards consortium

software design approach that uses models to abstract away from platform-specific details so developers can focus on behavior before considering implementation details (separating functionality and technology)

American computer scientist

general-purpose modeling language for systems engineering applications

software development methodology that focus on use of high-level abstract models to represent a system which is automatically transformed into executable code

actor in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) "specifies a role played by a user or any other system that interacts with the subject."

declarative language

method in computer programming of forming higher-level object types

Object Management Group standard for model-driven engineering

Israeli computer scientist

language for software modeling and designing

Object Management Group standard

one of three types of extensibility mechanisms in the Unified Modeling Language

concept in Unified Modeling Language

systems engineering methodology

programming language

A swimlane (as in swimlane diagram) is used in process flow diagrams, or flowcharts, that visually distinguishes job sharing and responsibilities for sub-processes of a business process. Swimlanes may be arranged either horizontally or vertically. thumb|Swimlane flowchart. Here, the swimlanes are named Customer, Sales, Contracts, Legal, and Fulfillment, and are arranged vertically.

automated way of modifying and creating models

Telelogic AB was a software business headquartered in Malmö, Sweden. Telelogic was founded in 1983 as a research and development arm of Televerket, the Swedish department of telecom (now part of TeliaSonera). It was later acquired by IBM Rational, and exists under the IBM software group.

thumb|320px|QVT Architecture as shown in the OMG standard QVT (Query/View/Transformation) is a standard set of languages for model transformation defined by the Object Management Group.

group of elements in UML under a namespace