This article examines the relevance of theUnified Modeling Language (UML) to the development ofobject-oriented (OO) real-time systems. The basic structure of thisarticle is similar to A UML Primer in ...

UML (Unified Modeling Language) as a standard as a standard of specification of object systems should be a natural source of information relevant to the testing.

We willconclude with a review of the UML Data Profile (as proposed by Rational Software). Some familiarity with object-oriented design, UML, and relational database modeling is assumed.