Developing collaboration tool for virtual team using UML models

Abstract

Computer aided software engineering (CASE) uses the unified modelling language UML to produce executable code to visualize software architectural blueprint systems. UML is a standard software modeling language for specifying, constructing, documenting and visualizing the artifacts of produced software-intensive systems. However, UML lacks virtual collaboration regardless of their geographical location. The present work developed a prototype of web-based CASE tool that enables UML modes to manage software projects as a virtual collaboration tool. The present methodology starts with the specification of a set of UML triplets; then, the tool generates the visual models automatically with high quality SVG graphs. The system eliminates the manual diagram requirements based on the UML possibility and supported by three diagrams that involves class and use cases. The independent scripting language was PHP7 and MYSQL 8.0 which was used to save the system data.