I was asked this from an associate of mine, but I never really thought of diagrams being mandatory, unless your boss is following UML by the book, in which case there might be certain UML diagrams that are required, at a minimum, when performing software modeling. I have serveral UML books and I don't recall any diagrams being labeled as mandatory. I would think that the 4 "mandatory" diagrams would be Use Case, Sequence, Class, and Component. What do you think? sf
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The question is bogus. It's like asking "which seven words are mandatory in English?" The only way UML diagrams can get mandatory is when we begin speaking about a process (though I wouldn't recommended using such a process for most projects). Your friend probably confused UML with RUP.
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Actually, now that you mentioned it, he was referring to the UML diagrams within the context of RUP. I forgot to mention that, but thanks for reminding me! So, does RUP requiry 4 mandatory diagrams? saf
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Here is a page on The Diagrams of UML 2 that lists all 13 (up from 9 in UML 1) diagrams. Just because of the level of abstraction I work at most often, my top four might be communication, sequence, class and state. [ June 06, 2003: Message edited by: Stan James ]
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