Abstract

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a language for the specification, visualization and documentation of object-oriented software systems. Mobile systems are gaining more and more importance; nevertheless the means for their specifications are still underdeveloped. Existing UML diagrams can be used to conveniently model behavior, but these diagrams can be hardly used to model mobility. However, UML cannot describe in an explicit manner the mobility requirements needed for modeling mobile tracking on patient progress software systems. In this study, we present (m-TOPP-UML), our proposed extension to UML covering the use case diagram, sequence diagram, activity diagram and class diagram aspects of mobility at the various views and diagrams of UML. The use of m-TOPP-UML is illustrated using a mobile tracking patient progress system example. The purpose of this study is to showcase the system analysis and design of concept of system and a precise form of system-level operation specification and an operation schema declaratively describes the effects of a system operation by using case model, actors, use case, relationships between the actors and the use case, interaction between the prototype and its user, sequence diagram and class diagram of m-TOPP as defined by the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

Keywords:

Diagrams, mobile, specification, system, unified modeling language,

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