In spite of being a de facto standard for analysis and design, UML has some obvious shortcomings: the UML definition is at best semi-formal, the set of result types is far too large and heterogeneous, the tool support is not satisfactory. If this is true - how do people cope with UML? sd&m AG conducted a study of best practices concerning the analysis phase. The aim was to find out what a typical analysis documentation looks like and how UML is used or not used. They identified seventeen modules a typical analysis documentation consists of, that are summarized briefly in this paper.
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