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Slide 1: UML CASE Tools :: Ashesh Ramjeeawon :: University of Mauritius Software Engineering Student 03 Feb. 2009 Blog: http://asheshr.wordpress.com Am also on Facebook! 
Slide 2: Agenda    Recap -UML Choosing UML CASE tools Open Source UML CASE tools      1. StarUML 2. Umbrello 3. AndroMDA 4. BOUML 5. ArgoUML 1. IBM Rational Rose 2. Microsoft Visio  Commercial CASE tools  
Slide 3: What is UML?  The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a language for specifying, constructing, visualizing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system. -Source - SoftwareEngineeringReferences.com
Slide 4: Choosing UML tools     Tool should support most UML analysis diagrams (class, use-case, collaboration, sequence, and activity). It be easy to use, reliable, scalable. It be free or almost free to universities. There be a free-ish Windows and/or Linux version that students may install on their home machines Source: SoftwareEngineeringReferences.com
Slide 5: UML Case Tools   “Tools are very important element of defining a path of least resistance. If I can set up a tool so that it’s easier for a developer to do something the way that I want the developer to do it, and harder for the developer to do it some other way, then I think it’s very likely the developer is going to do it the way I want them to, because it’s easier. It’s the path of least resistance." - Steve C McConnell Author: Code Complete
Slide 6: Open Source UML Tools What is Open Source?
Slide 7: Open Source is defined as…  Open source usually refers to software that is released with source code  under a license that ensures that derivative works will also be available as source code,  protects certain rights of the original authors, and prohibits restrictions on how the software can be used or who can use it. - O’Reilly Media Visit: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php for another definition
Slide 8: “Googling” the Open Source tools…  A keyword search on Feb 2009 of  “UML modeler” on  Sourceforge.net  Reveals 513 results….
Slide 9: Choosing the popular tools… •Are we going to look at all these 513 tools?  Let’s filter by downloads 
Slide 10: 1. StarUML - 781,246 downloads  StarUML is an open source project to develop fast, flexible, extensible, featureful, and freely-available UML/MDA platform running on Win32 platform. The goal is a compelling replacement of commercial UML tools such as RationalRose, Together and so on. 
Slide 11: 1. StarUML - 781,246 downloads User Interface: Win32 (MS Windows)  Translations: English  Programming Language: Delphi/Kylix  Operating System: 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP)  License: GNU General Public License (GPL)  Intended Audience: Other Audience, Developers, Quality Engineers  Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable 
Slide 12: 1. starUML screenshots
Slide 13: 1. starUML screenshots
Slide 14: 2. Umbrello - 248,031 downloads  An UML modeling tool for KDE. It supports most UML diagrams, code export (C++ and Java) and reverse engineering. [Open Source, GPL]
Slide 15: 2. Umbrello - 248,031 downloads User Interface: KDE  Translations: English, Esperanto  Programming Language: C++  Operating System: Linux, All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)  License: GNU General Public License (GPL)  Intended Audience: Developers   Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
Slide 18: 3. AndroMDA – 155,165 downloads  AndroMDA is a code generation framework that follows the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) paradigm.  It takes a UML model from a CASE-tool and generates classes and deployable components (J2EE or other) specific for your application architecture.
Slide 19: 3. AndroMDA – 155,165 downloads  Translations: English, German  Programming Language: Java  Operating System: OS Independent (Written in an interpreted langua  License: BSD License  Intended Audience: Developers  Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
Slide 21: 4. BOUML – 104, 064 downloads   BOUML is a free UML 2 tool box allowing you to model and generate code in C++, Java, Idl, Php and Python. BOUML runs under Unix/Linux/Solaris, MacOS X and Windows. It is very fast and doesn't require much memory to manage several thousands of classes. 
Slide 22: 4. BOUML – 104, 064 downloads   User Interface: Qt Programming Language: C++ Operating System: All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), All BSD Platforms (FreeBSD/ NetBSD/OpenBSD/Apple Mac OS X), All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP) License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Intended Audience: Developers Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable    
Slide 23: BOUML -Use Case Diagram
Slide 24: BOUML – Sequence Diagram
Slide 25: BOUML – Sequence Diagram
Slide 26: BOUML – State Diagram
Slide 27: BOUML – Class Diagram
Slide 28: BOUML – Activity Diagram
Slide 29: 5. ArgoUML   ArgoUML is a powerful yet easy-to-use interactive Java based graphical software design environment that supports the design, development and documentation of object-oriented software applications. A free research modelling tool; fairly fully featured; the main goal is to have a Really Useful user interface, unlike almost all existing CASE tools;
Slide 30:  The users of ArgoUML are software designers & architects, software developers, business analysts, systems analysts and other professionals involved in the analysis, design and development of software applications.  Note that there is a commercial version of this tool that goes by the name Poseidon and is marketed by a Gentleware; they offer a free community edition as well as fancier editions that cost real money.
Slide 32: ArgoUML – class diagram
Slide 33: Argo UML – Use Case Diagram
Slide 34: Argo UML – State Chart Diagram
Slide 35: Other Open Source Tools     Gaphor, a GPL modelling tool written in Python using GTK+ Astade is aimed at aiding in autogenerating C++ source from UML models. It is meant to be practical rather than research oriented FUJABA (the rather unlikely acronym stands for Forward Unto Java And Back Again), supports both reverse engineering of and code generation for Java systems Coral is an open source research-based modelling and meta-modelling tool, from Akademi University in Finland
Slide 36: Other Open Source Tools    DIA, a freeware/GPL multiplatform (!!) drawing tool based on GTK; supports UML and other kinds of diagrams; this is intended to be a freeware Visio-like drawing tool rather than a modelling tool Violet, a very simple GPL drawing tool written by Cay Horstmann UMLet, a small, very simple, and easy-to-use drawing tool (as opposed to a fully fledged modelling tool) from the Technical University of Vienna.
Slide 37: Commercial Tools
Slide 38: Commercial Tools IBM Rational Rose  Microsoft Visio  SmartDraw  Enterprise Architect  Poseidon for UML  Borland Together  Sybase Power Designer 
Slide 39: IBM Rational Rose    Rational Rose[rational] is often considered the definitive UML tool because the founders of the Rational company also include the creators of UML. Early versions of Umbrello described it as an equivalent of Rational Rose and screenshots indicate that it has a similar user interface layout. perhaps the best known UML tool; free to universities (if you ask)
Slide 42: Hotel Reservation System in Rational Rose
Slide 43: Microsoft Visio   Instead of static pictures, create data-connected Visio diagrams that display data, are easy to refresh, and dramatically increase your productivity. Use the wide variety of diagrams in Office Visio 2007 to understand, act on, and share information about organizational systems, resources, and processes throughout your enterprise. Source: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/visio/HA101656401033.aspx
Slide 45: Other CASE Tools Oracle JDeveloper  MetaUML  Agent UML Tool  Delphia Object Modeler  Magic Draw  Borland Together  JUDE  OmniGraffle (Macintosh)  Eclipse UML  Visual Paradigm for the Unified Modeling Language 
Slide 46: Other Case Tools     Visual UML iLogix Rhapshody gModeler And the list goes on!
Slide 47: Conclusion   Use the tools that make us most productive Efficiency is the key!
Slide 48: References        http://www.objectsbydesign.com/tools/umltoo ls_byCompany.html http://www.oose.de/umltools.htm http://geekswithblogs.net/flanakin/archive/200 4/01/28/1594.aspx http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/uml.html Sourceforge.net Istockphoto..com Softwarequotes.com
Slide 49: The End Slides downloadable on: http://asheshr.wordpress.com Tag: Computing, Open Source  Category: Software Engineering 