We have performed in this work some extensions to UML in order to give opportunity to designers to deal with exception handling in the early phases of software life cycle. We have done our proposed extensions according to a defined profile that extends UML in order to introduce exception handling concepts, notations and terminology in UML diagrams. This feature does not exist in standard UML. Extensions we have done have been applied to use case and sequence diagrams. These extensions are translated to graphical notations that make sense for designers. Designers have looked always after...