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Diagrams and Languages for Model-Based Software Engineering of Embedded Systems: UML and AADL

December 2007 White Paper
Dionisio de Niz

The tools compared in this discussion, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL), facilitate the modeling of software architecture and provide elements to understand it.

Publisher:

Software Engineering Institute

Abstract

Even after years of research and practice in computer science and, in particular, in software engineering, software projects are still largely risky and unpredictable. Model-based engineering tools for software engineering recognize the importance of architecture and automated analysis. The tools compared in this discussion, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL), facilitate the modeling of software architecture and provide elements to understand it.