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Domain analysis is a tedious development process and it is quite difficult to be documented. We often jot it in a piece of paper and lack of center documentation repository for storing them, so that we know what is customer’s original intents of the project in terms of goals and scope.
Now, we use VP-UML to [...]

Textual analysis is a process to analyze the system domain. It helps to identify the candidate classes in a problem statement. Learn how to use VP-UML to automate this development process!

Textual analysis is a tool that should be used properly. Knowing about the problem domain is even more important. If you are assigned to work on a project in a domain that is unfamiliar to you, what are some ways you can become familiar with that domain so you can make informed judgments (a [...]

Any OO system starts with a simple problem statement.   Most often, the problem statements are then elaborated by interviewing the users or subject matter experts (SME) to get more details about what the system is supposed to do and how is it to going to behave.  This verbose write-up of the requirements of the system [...]

Find the external entities with which the system under development must interact. Candidates include groups of users who will require help from the system to perform their tasks and execute the system’s primary or secondary functions, as well as external hardware, software, and other systems.
Define each candidate [...]