> From: Jeffrey Carter <[log in to unmask]>
> I don't know if I'd go that far. UML is primarily a requirements
> notation, and does not seem to me as well suited for design as for
> requirements. It also has a lot of diagrams, each of which adds only
> a little information. The reader has to understand each of those
> many diagrams and integrate them in his head to understand the
> system. I would much prefer a notation with fewer diagrams, each of
> which conveys more information.
UML is a bag (ragbag) of everyone's favourite techniques, apart from
DFDs. None of the originators would have used all the diagrams, so
there's no reason why you should either!
As a simple for-instance, we never use component diagrams (because we
allocate code to Ada packages using translation rules instead).