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One of the benefits claimed for the Naked Objects approach (see article 1) is that it helps in the capture and modeling of business requirements. There is a widespread misconception that modeling ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. Adoption of Unified Modeling Language (UML) is lagging and needs better tools, according to Stephen Mellor, chief scientist of Mentor Graphics Corp.'s embedded systems division.

In his Sept. 24 column, Five Diagrams Beat a Victorian Novel, Michael Hugos makes a compelling case for representing system specifications in some fashion other than simple text, which he claims ...

Editor's Note: This content is excerpted from Chapter 11 of Linux Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques, authored by Steve Best, ISBN 0-13-149247-0 ...