Why UML Modeling?
1 min readApr 18, 2018
Visual Paradigm, the vendor of an award winning UML software, has written an article that outlines several reasons why UML modeling is needed. This article summarize the content they provide in point form.
- Modeling is a proven & well accepted engineering techniques.
- In terms of the purpose of UML, it:
- Permits you to specify the structure or behavior of a system.
- Helps you visualize a system.
- Provides template that guides you in constructing a system.
- Helps to understand complex system part by part.
- Document the decisions that you have made.
We build model so that we can better understand the system we are developing. A model may encompass an overview of the system under consideration, as well as a detailed planning for system design, implementation and testing.
