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UML25 — Location: 18.1.1 Summary P. 685 - A Subject may only refer to a single system

  • Key: UML25-410
  • Legacy Issue Number: 18044
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Soluta.net ( Adriano Comai)
  • Summary:

    current text: “A UseCase’s subject represents the system or systems under consideration to which the UseCase applies.”

    [AC] This addition wasn't in the previous UML version, 11-08-06, where the description was “The subject is the system under consideration to which the use cases apply.”

    I consider the plural “or systems” ambiguous, because it lets the reader think that the subject may refer to more than a single system.
    If we want to say that the subject may be a very complex one, such as a system of systems (and this may be indeed useful in my opinion) we should state this point explicitly.

    So I suggest to go back to the previous formulation, or to state more explicitly that the subject may refer to an arbitrarily complex system

  • Reported: UML 2.4.1 — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — UML 2.5
  • Disposition Summary:

    Reword as suggested.

  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:59 GMT