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Of this, around a third of the space is screen dumps, dialogues and other figures and another fifth is lists of 'next click here' procedure steps to achieve something in Rose.
#Rational rose uml code
Ignoring contents, glossary and the code listings in the appendix, the page count drops to 160-odd pages of actual text. One thing that struck me whilst reading this book, however, was that there is not that much text here. There are some interesting points made on design and class associations and on states and state transitions, although I found a couple of minor omissions or technical inaccuracies in the explanations of UML. Footnote numbers are also typeset almost into the line above, making it hard to spot them. Several errors - incorrect references, grammar, copy/paste mistakes, figure errors - should really have been picked up in final proof-reading.
#Rational rose uml software
The style is (apart from the software instruction) quite readable. This should be advertised more prominently, however. This is perhaps partly defensible because the main ideas that the book tries to get across are those of the process, so detailed usage of dialogue boxes should be similar, even if their layout, etc., changes. The book admits (near the end of chapter 1) to being based on the older V4 of Rational Rose (its successor, Rose 98, came out at the start of 1998), but justifies this on the grounds that the software steps described in the book 'may be applied to later versions'. This can be quite painful to read, but if sitting, confused, in front of the screen, it could be quite helpful to have every step listed. For each process, detailed steps are given to let Rose know what you want ('open this folder, click the class required, drag it onto the diagram'). The book walks you through the various stages of the system development process, from discovering use cases and classes, through to a brief discussion of system deployment. An introduction to the most basic elements of the UML is given only as they become necessary. It actually focuses mainly on the first two of these - the process and its support from the tool. The author describes this book as an introduction to a tool (Rose), a process (Rational's Objectory) and a notation (UML).