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model | becomes the core of documentation describing the system | |
has definition An abstract representation of a system, that conveys a certain aspect of it in an understandable and analyzable way | ||
is crucial in software development | ||
is a subtopic of 5.1 - What is UML? | ||
is used to describe a software system | ||
is used to validate a software system | ||
is a kind of representation | ||
see also model^2 | ||
should be understandable by clients and users so they can participate in the development process as much as possible | ||
should be properly reviewed | ||
should provide abstraction so that not all details are visible at once | ||
should provide insights about the system when software engineers analyze it | ||
should use a standard notation such as UML so that everybody who looks at it will interpret it the same way | ||
will contain classes from the original system if the system is an extension to an existing system | ||
will contain many classes from the framework if the system is being built using a framework |
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