The second primary benefit of UML for system specification comes from the fact that UML's behavioral model derives from Harel Statecharts, a well-defined executable language. You can execute and ...

Executable and Translatable UML (xtUML) accelerates the development of real-time, embedded and technical software systems. Proven and well defined, xtUML is a fully automated methodology utilizing a ...

In the first article in this series, we introduced the notion of an executable UML, but we did not describe the elements of which it consists. These elements must be sufficiently primitive to be ...

. Stephen J. Mellor is vice president of Project Technology, Inc., the company he and Sally Shlaer co-founded in 1985, now located in Tucson, AZ. He can be contacted at [email protected]. In the first ...