How UML is used

Authors:
Brian Dobing;Jeffrey Parsons
Affiliations:
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada;Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Venue:
Communications of the ACM - Two decades of the language-action perspective
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Many UML projects are not Use Case driven.