Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture

How to create UML models that can be executed, tested, and verified. xUML extensions, code generation, translation, testing, deployment, and more. Cutting-edge techniques from Stephen J. Mellor, one of the worlds leading methodologists. Using Executable UML (xUML), developers can build UML models that can not only be unambiguously interpreted by human readers, but can be tested and validated through actual execution, and ultimately translated directly and completely to target code. This technology offers immense potential for accelerating development projects, enhancing reliability, and reducing cost. In this book, two of the fields leading experts introduce every facet of xUML. The authors introduce Executable UMLs goals, premises, and features; then drill down to explain its key elements. Along the way, readers will discover exactly how to use xUML to create software systems that can be tested even before they are coded, enabling far greater reliability at significantly lower expense. For all developers, analysts, and project managers seeking to improve software reliability, time-to-market, and value. This book will be especially valuable to real-time programmers, and to thousands of programmers who have used Shlaer-Mellor methodologies. Stephen J. Mellor Senior Vice President of Project Technology, Inc., is best known for his contributions to the development of object-oriented analysis, recursive design, and the Shlaer-Mellor Method. He is author of Structured Development for Real-Time Systems: Implementation Modeling Techniques, co-author of Object-Oriented Systems Analysis: Modeling the World in Data, and co-author of Object Lifecycles: Modeling the World in States. Marc Balcer, Project Manager for ThoughtWorks, manages development projects intended to push the technology envelope and transform clients businesses. He formerly worked with Sally Shlaer and Stephen Mellor to perform advanced O-O analysis and development, and to develop and teach courses on the subject. von Mellor, Stephen;Balcer, Marc;