analysis

Dr Darren explains:

I use the term UMLTM Parsing Analysis to refer to a recipe I develop for parsing digital texts into graphical form and interpreting them as Unified Modeling Language (UML)TM and Systems Modeling Language (SysML) model elements, and as navigable, cross-referenced UMLTM diagrams.

This Webel zones feature explanations of the UMLTM Parsing Analysis recipe(s), guidelines for interpreting text as UMLTM and SysML, and many examples of applications of the technique to a wide range of domains, including software engineering, systems engineering, science, language, art, and of course the very UML specification itself !

The UMLTM Parsing Analysis recipe has undergone significant evolution and improvement since 2000, from the naive use of text boxes and UML notes (0th order), then stereotyped Comment elements as «source» text containers related to analysis elements by loose handles (1st order), and eventually to the novel use of Classifiers (such as Components) with Relationships (such as Dependencies and Associations) to analysis model elements (2nd order). Readers should orient themselves primarily on the most recent examples, however the older examples are still of educational value.

The advanced form of the UMLTM Parsing Analysis recipe achieves robust model element management using UML Model and Package elements for ownership, while using parasitic «wrapper» Components for convenient logical and graphical grouping of related elements - without disturbing the "physical" ownership structure - and for capturing the context provided by a snippet of «source» text. This also promotes easy navigation between diagrams in tools supporting hyperlinking of models elements to diagrams.