Documenting Component and Connector Views with UML 2.0

The widespread presence of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) has led practitioners to try to apply it when documenting software architectures. While early versions of UML have been adequate for documenting many kinds of architectural views, they have fallen somewhat short, particularly for documenting component and connector views. UML 2.0 has added a number of new constructs and modified some existing ones to address these problems. In this report, we explore how changes in this version affect UML's suitability as a notation for documenting component and connector views.

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Authors

James Ivers

Paul C. Clements

David Garlan

Robert Nord

Bradley Schmerl

Oviedo Silva (Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science)

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Software Architecture

Technical Report
CMU/SEI-2004-TR-008
April 2004

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SEI:

Ivers, James; Clements, Paul; Garlan, David; Nord, Robert; Schmerl, Bradley; & Silva, Oviedo. Documenting Component and Connector Views with UML 2.0 (CMU/SEI-2004-TR-008). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/04tr008.cfm

IEEE:

J. Ivers, P. Clements, D. Garlan, R. Nord, B. Schmerl, and O. Silva, "Documenting Component and Connector Views with UML 2.0," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2004-TR-008, 2004. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/04tr008.cfm

APA:

Ivers, J., Clements, P., Garlan, D., Nord, R., Schmerl, B., & Silva, O. (2004). Documenting Component and Connector Views with UML 2.0 (CMU/SEI-2004-TR-008). Retrieved May 23, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/04tr008.cfm

CHI:

Ivers, James, Paul Clements, David Garlan, Robert Nord, Bradley Schmerl, and Oviedo Silva. Documenting Component and Connector Views with UML 2.0 (CMU/SEI-2004-TR-008). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2004. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/04tr008.cfm

MLA:

Ivers, J., Clements, P., Garlan, D., Nord, R., Schmerl, B., & Silva, O. 2004. Documenting Component and Connector Views with UML 2.0 (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2004-TR-008). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/04tr008.cfm

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