Unified Modeling Language (UML): Complete Guide & Examples

Name: Unified Modeling Language (UML): Complete Guide & Examples
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An online course to Learn how to read UML diagrams, interpret every UML notation and build them using practical examples

Created byMaged Koshty

Last updated 3/2024

English

What you'll learn

Gain a working knowledge UML 2.0
Apply knowledge of OOAD to design an object-oriented system which can be implemented in an object-oriented language
Learn the meaning of every UML notation and when to use them
Learn the industry best practices to build UML
Interpret any UML diagram effectively
Increase your software development productivity

Course content

12 sections • 51 lectures • 3h 45m total length

Why UML? [CC]3:09
About Me [CC]2:01
Meet Maged Koshty, managing director of ExpertWave, who leads a Cairo-based training and consulting company with global branches in Dubai and Ottawa, offering project management and software engineering expertise.
Our Learning Methodology [CC]1:19

What is a Use Case? [CC]3:19
Importance of a Good Use Case [CC]1:28
Use cases define features and scope, reveal missing requirements, and guide priority and risk to reduce costs. They drive assignments, tracking, and test-case construction based on tangible user value.
Use Case Diagram : The Basics [CC]5:06
Stereotypes [CC]1:39
Advanced Use Case Notations [CC]8:13
[Activity] : Can you read this Use Case diagram? [CC]0:20
Guidelines for Building a Quality Use Case Diagram [CC]6:14

Use Case Specification: Elements [CC]2:41
Use Case Specification: Example [CC]7:41
Use Case Specification: Example Enhanced [CC]4:26
Explore enhanced use case specification for the withdraw money use case, detailing include and extension relationships, display error message flows, preconditions, postconditions, and updates to account and transactions.
Use Case Specification: Another Template [CC]2:22
Explore how use case specifications vary by template, illustrating a main flow as a system–actor dialogue and detailing extensions, numbering, and essential sections like user interface requirements and business rules.
Guidelines for Building a Quality Use Case Specification [CC]3:34

Building Use case diagram and description Process [CC]3:28
Introducing our UML tool "UMLet"9:11
Another Case Study: The problem2:28
Another Case Study: The Draft Use Case Diagram4:51
Explore a case study and draft use case diagram in UML to understand modeling requirements and system interactions.
Another Case Study: The Use Case Description6:45
Another Case Study: The Final Use Case Diagram3:12
Explore another case study on the final use case diagram within UML, as part of the Unified Modeling Language complete guide and examples.

Activity Diagrams: Introduction [CC]4:32
Activity Diagrams: The Basics [CC]4:55
Explore uml activity diagrams: actions as indivisible units in rounded rectangles, with activities as sequences, and preconditions, postconditions, notes, initial and final nodes, and guards shaping flow.
Activity Diagrams: Advanced9:40
Guidelines for Building a Quality Activity Diagram [CC]4:36
[Activity] : Can you read this Activity diagram? [CC}0:21

Class Diagrams: Introduction [CC]2:06
Class Diagrams: The Beginning [CC]1:57
Class Diagrams: The Attributes [CC]9:26
Examine how class diagrams represent attributes with inline and relationship notation, including public, private, protected, and package visibility, multiplicity, and derived or static properties.
Class Diagrams: The Operations [CC]4:07
Class Diagrams Relationships:Dependency,Association,Aggregation,Composition [CC]7:13
Class Diagrams Relationships: It is Complicated [CC]8:35
Class Diagram Guidelines : The Basics11:32
Class Diagram Guidelines : The relationships9:18
Master UML class diagrams by aligning relationships horizontally and inheritance vertically, using tree configurations to reduce clutter; show multiplicity, concise association names in active voice, and clear directionality.
[Activity] : Can you read this Class diagram? [CC}0:20
Download the document and engage with a UML class diagram reading activity, guided by the complete UML guide and examples.

Requirements

Basic Object Oriented knowledge is preferable.

Description

Last updated: 14-Oct-2017 Added a new lecture "Guidelines for building quality Class Diagrams"

Currently The course contains The Use Case diagram, Use case description, activity diagram, class diagram, object diagram, package diagram, sequence diagram and state transition diagram.

"Outstanding explanations and examples. Taught in an insightful and practical manner. The teacher is an obvious expert in the field."---Sean ODonnell

"Nice and easy to follow. The instructor engages effectively and reinforces the topics."---Ishaq Aslam

Software practitioners have used modeling languages for decades to specify, visualize, construct, and document systems. UML which stands for The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is one of those languages and today UML is the most used standard modeling language for software and systems development. Even though not everyone need to write UML diagrams , Most software practitioners, if not all of them, need to interpret and read diagrams written by others.

UML is used to express software or system requirements, architecture, and design. After taking this course. UML will make it easy for you to communicate technical matters with other developers, analysts, designers, testers and even your clients. So it improve your ability to communicate with others and will also improve your team productivity as it will be easier to use UML to express complicated technical matters with others in much less time.

In this course, I talk about all the different UML diagrams Use cases, class diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagram and more. I will talk about each of them in detail. You will learn how to read and comprehend any UML diagram and you also learn the important guidelines to build them provided by subject matter experts. We will have workshops to read and build diagrams together. All these can be achieved with little effort just by watching this course.

In this course, we will learn by example, starting by quickly demonstrate some the notations of a diagram then explain in detail the variations of each of those notations. Then will introduce more notations and then discuss them and so on.

When done learning how to read any diagram, We will explain how to build diagrams using those notations and the guidelines that we should follow to use each notations.

Join this course now and I promise that you will be able to read any UML diagram and build neat , quality UML diagrams in no time

Who this course is for:

Software practitioners : developers, testers, managers
Anyone interested in learning how to interpret UML diagrams

Unified Modeling Language (UML): Complete Guide & Examples

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Course content

Introduction to UML (Unified Modeling Language)3 lectures • 6min

Use Case Diagram7 lectures • 26min

Use Case Specification5 lectures • 21min

Building Use case diagram and description Workshop6 lectures • 30min

Activity Diagrams5 lectures • 24min

Class Diagrams9 lectures • 55min

Object Diagrams2 lectures • 5min

Package Diagrams3 lectures • 14min

Sequence Diagrams4 lectures • 21min

State Transition Diagrams3 lectures • 17min

Requirements

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