Chapter 5

Use Case Diagram

Shows the interactions between a system and its environment

Context Model

Structural model that demonstrate the other systems in the environment

What diagram is a structural diagram?

Class diagram

Four perspectives of system modeling

External, interaction, structural, behavioral

Model-Driven Architecture

A trademarked approach to development based on modeling a given problem or project based on the object and business processes; it automatically transforms the model to computer software using a standard transformation language

External Perspective

Model the context or environment of the system

Behavioral Perspective

Model the dynamic behavior of the system and how it responds to events

Interaction Perspective

Model the interactions between a system and its environment, or between the components of a system.

Structural Perspective

Model the organization of a system or the structure of the data that is processed by the system

Activity Diagram

Show the activities involved in a process or in data processing

State Diagram

Shows how the system reacts to internal and external events

Sequence Diagram

Shows the interactions between actors and the system and between system components

Class Diagram

Shows the object classes in the system and the associations between these classes

Which two diagrams are interaction models?

Use Case, Sequence