A method for developing UML state machines

摘要

While UML is one of the most used notation for describing a system to build, there are many issues to tackle to develop an appropriate UML model. In this work, we concentrate on the development of state machines describing the behaviour of a class. We show how relevant information can be searched for in the textual description and organized to obtain a behaviour description from which the state machine can be derived. Our method is quite systematic and should help to prevent common mistakes in building state machines.