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operateUntilDeath()
Putting aside the “NotYouAndMe” class name in the bogus BD00 model below for a moment, I think most powerful and wealthy people believe that they can willfully control their feelings, actions, and...
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Customer Suffering
For some context, assume that your software-intensive system can actually be modeled in terms of “identifiable C”s: Given this decomposition of structure, the ideal but pragmatically unattainable test...
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Human_Being:preserveSelf
As the UML sequence diagram below shows, an “unnamed” Nature object with an infinite lifeline asynchronously creates and, uh, kills Human_Being objects at will. Sorry about that. So, what’s this...
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Scrum Cheat Sheet
While reading Schwaber and Sutherland’s official Scrum Guide, I decided to concoct a graphical UML-heavy cheat sheet of the monstrously famous agile framework. Scrum Framework Components System Class...
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Proprietary Extensions
When using a tool or technology that implements a universal standard, beware of inadvertently using non-standard extensions that “lock” you into the vendor’s revenue stream. The graphic below shows a...
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Broken, Not Bent
It’s one thing to “bend” the UML to express a design concept that you don’t know how to express with the language, but it’s another thing to “break” it outright. By “break“, I mean drawing old-school,...
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Irritated
Unsurprisingly, one of BD00′s posts irritated a reader who stumbled upon it. For some strange reason, BD00′s scribblings have that effect on some people. In the irritating post, “The Old Is New Again“,...
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Annoying And Disappointing
Atego’s Artisan Real-Time Studio, Sparx’s Enterprise Architect, and IBM’s Rational Rhapsody are big and expensive UML modeling tools. You would think they support all of the basic visual modeling...
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Big Design, But Not All Upfront
When not ranting and raving on this blawg about “great injustices” (LOL) that I perceive are keeping the world from becoming a better place, I design, write, and test real-time radar system software...
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Mind-To-Code-To-Mind And Mind-To-Model-To-Code
Since my previous post, I’ve been thinking in more detail about how we manage to move an integrated set of static structures and dynamic behaviors out of our heads and into a tree of associated source...
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