Unified Modeling Language and the Software Development Process

Introduction
As the strategic value or requirement of software increases for many companies, the industry looks for techniques to automate the production of software, to improve quality and reduce cost and time-to-market. Businesses seek techniques to manage the complexity of systems as they increase in scope and scale. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) was designed to respond to these needs. In this paper we will discuss why we use a UML, as well as a few types of UMLs such as Class Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, and Activity Diagrams.
What is a UML?
To organize program code more effic…