Real Time UML: Advances in the UML for Real-Time Systems

By Bruce Powel Douglass

Praise for Real Time UML, Third Edition "I found Real Time UML, Third Edition, to provide an informative and practical application of UML 2.0 to the development of real-time systems, and well worth the read by systems and software engineers. It is written in plain English and provides the right balance of depth and breadth." --Sanford Friedenthal, Deputy, Corporate Systems Engineering, Lockheed Martin Corporation; Chair: OMG Systems Engineering, Domain Special Interest Group "Douglass has again made highly technical material accessible to everyone. This book is an excellent introduction to the new UML 2.0, and if you want to learn what modeling for real-time environments is like, this is the book to read. His witty, conversational style should be a model for all authors of technical material." -- Gary K. Evans, Founder and Object Evangelist, Evanetics, Inc. ( www.evanetics.com)
"Douglass has been a co-chair of the OMG's group interested in quality of service issues and, therefore, has valuable insights into the usefulness of these emerging technologies. His clear presentation of this information helps those applying these advanced technologies to extract the most benefit for their organizations and products, not only for the intended real-time embedded product, but also for products whose quality of performance, while not critical, is nevertheless of interest." --Th?r?se M. Smith, President and CEO, Air Traffic Software Architecture, Inc. (USA and Canada) "The author presents an excellent overview of UML in the real-time space with plenty of colorful examples. This book is an excellent teaching tool for a newcomer or a reference for an expert!" --Soma Chatterjee, Senior Product Manager, I-Logix The increasing complexity of embedded and real-time systems requires a more premeditated and sophisticated design approach for successful implementation. The object-based Unified Modeling Language (UML) can describe the structural and behavioral aspects critical to real-time systems and has come to the fore as an outstanding medium for effective design. Like its best-selling predecessors, Real Time UML, Third Edition, provides an overview of the essentials of real-time systems and an introduction to UML that focuses on the use of the ever-evolving standard in design and development. This accessible book examines requirements analysis, the definition of object structure and behavior, architectural and mechanistic design, and more detailed designs that encompass data structure, operations, and exceptions. Numerous figures help illustrate UML design techniques, and detailed, real-world examples show the application of those techniques to embedded systems. This significantly revised edition features the new UML 2.0 standard, which dramatically improves the clarity of the UML for capturing architectures and improving its scalability. Real Time UML, Third Edition, also introduces the UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time (STP Profile). The STP Profile provides a standardized way to capture schedulability and performance constraints of systems. This allows analysis tools to read and analyze UML models. Key topic coverage includes: The Rapid Object-Oriented Process for Embedded Systems (ROPES) Concurrency and resource modeling with the Real-Time (SPT) UML Profile Tapping action semantics for greater executability Scenario modeling with timing diagrams Key strategies for object identification Defining object state behavior Representing and identifying threads Mechanistic design patterns Representing Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Architectures with the UML

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321160762
• ISBN13: 9780321160768
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 694 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A must have for all software design projects

Be it Embedded Systems software development or not, this book is, I believe, a must have for any & all software design projects you undertake. I would not hesitate to consider application of the techniques set forth in a client-server or even web enabled internet paradigm. The author renders UML in context very well & allows for all concepts to make sense via formulation of cognitive models. I'll be sure to keep an eye out for future publications made by this author.

Yes, OO can help in embedded real-time system design !

As an embedded software in space system developper , i didn't really think OOP could be of any use for me. First because OO didn't show itself much valuable for dynamic systems, second because their usually is no OO language supported by our typical hardware. Then i read Real-Time UML. And i found a very simple, clear way to present and organize my design ideas. Furthermore, UML showed itself very efficient in detecting design error, refining some concepts. Now, each time i have to express my feelings, orientations, solutions, i use one or several of UML's diagrams. This is honnestly a must-read book, where any RT embedded system designer will find a good method to clear and refine things. It also shows itself very didactic in explaining the basics of Object Oriented Design. Impressive !

Great book for embedded developers seeking intro. to OT!

I found this book to be very rewarding for us "real-timers". Easy reading, starting with simple concepts and then building to more complex ones... The author explains OO concepts using non-GUI examples which makes this book a "stand-out" for embedded software engineers. I especially enjoyed the cardiac pacemaker example. B. Douglass also does a fine job regarding his discussion of architectural, mechanistic, and detailed design utilizing UML diagrams and notation.

Excellent coverage of very usefull UML applications.

This book is easy to read and study -- tuitorial in nature. Covers the design of real-time systems using the UML OO concepts.

I have been converted.

Thanks to this book, I have finally taken the plunge with OOD for our latest safety critical embedded project. I am surprised at how gentle my induction has been. I had always believed that OO methods were inappropriate for real time applications but Bruce Douglass has persuaded me otherwise. He also provides the UML toolbox to pick and choose from and with these tools designs can be expressed in a pithy and unambiguous way that Douglass demonstrates clearly with many examples. Real time concepts and descriptions, of different architectural designs for example, are made that much clearer by the use of UML. This coupled with a repetitious reinforcement of the concepts and notation of the UML itself have the effect of accelerating understanding as the book progresses.