Written by three pioneers in the back of the Modeling Language (UML) Unified standards, The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual provides guidelines for the real world that is very good to work with UML. This title provides expert knowledge about all aspects of today's UML standard, helping developers who face the UML on the job for the first time become more productive. The book begins with a history of UML, from structured design methods from the 60s and 70s with the competing standard object-oriented design that united in 1997 to create UML. The author uses easy to understand ticket-booking system for many examples of them.) After a tour of basic document types, The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual provides alphabetical list of more than 350 UML terms. (Class, operation, and cases of use of only a few important terms are discussed.) Although you will definitely need to get acquainted with the principles of software engineering , this reference will serve software developers to work well.