The Golden Age of Software Architecture

by Christian F.J. Lange, Michel R.V. Chaudron, and Johan Muskens, pp. 40–46. To determine how UML is being used in current software architecting and design, the authors surveyed practitioners and analyzed case studies of industry projects. Their results show that UML is used rather loosely and that UML models are often incomplete. This leads to miscommunication and other implementation and maintenance problems. The authors conclude with recommendations and techniques for controlling UML model quality.