Part A Goal: Drawing UML Component Diagrams Requirements: Represent the structure of a software system by using UML 2.x Component Diagrams. Use a medium-sized The recommended UML tool is Visual Paradigm Community Edition, but you can use other tools as long as they support component diagrams. In your assignment, you have to use in your diagram all the important elements of UML 2.x component diagrams: provided interfaces, required interfaces, ports, internal structure, connectors.

Part B Goal: Comparing the capabilities of different UML tools for components Credits: by doing correctly and in time this assignment you can obtain a maximum of 40 marks Use at least 3 different UML tools of your choice (one of the tools can be the tool used for part A). Compare the tools from the point of view of their capabilities of supporting the standard UML 2.x elements for component diagrams. The comparison can be in the form of a table having the standard UML component diagram elements in the rows and the tools on the columns. Every entry in this table can have one of the values: not supported, fully supported (according to the standard), or supported in a custom way. If a certain element is supported by a tool X in a custom way, this has to be explained/commented (example: tool X supports provided/required interfaces, but using only stereotype notation, not as lollipop and socket; Tool Y does not provide delegation connectors, but they can be replaced with dependency relationships in diagrams; etc ...)