Using UML in Architecture-Level Modifiability Analysis
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In our scenario-based method for software architecture-level modifiability analysis of business information systems, we use architectural views to determine and express the effect of change scenarios. We distinguish four architectural views. We used the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation to formalize the information captured in these views. This paper reports on the experience we gained in this process.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001