What is UML?
UML, or Unified Modeling Language, is a standard visual language for describing software structure, behaviour, and interactions.
Where is UML used?
- Planning software architecture
- Documenting classes and relationships
- Explaining workflows and sequences
- Communicating system designs
Prerequisites to learn UML
- Basic software-development vocabulary
- No specific programming language is required
- A diagramming tool is optional
Advantages of UML
- Creates a shared visual vocabulary
- Clarifies complex relationships
- Useful for design reviews and documentation
- Independent of implementation language
Limitations of UML
- Diagrams can become outdated
- Too much detail slows teams down
- Notation does not replace working software
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