Artifact (UML)
An artifact (Engl. Artifact ) is a model element in the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a modeling language for software and other systems. It is used in the distribution diagram and component diagram.
An artifact represents a result of a work process. Examples of such results are files with source code as a result of a software development process or a text document as a result of the definition of requirements for a system.
An artifact is represented graphically like a class , but also with the keyword or the stereotype «artifact» (see figure on the right). UML2 defines a number of additional keywords for certain types of artifacts:
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«script»stands for a script file that a computer can interpret -
«document»stands for a document -
«executable»stands for an executable file -
«file»stands for an unspecified file -
«library»stands for a library file -
«source»stands for a file with source text