The Unified Modeling Language is the industry standard for modeling software-intensive systems.
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Do Activity diagram end in one endpoint anyway?
For example an activity diagram for a simple program - Get User data. If User Exists DO something, ELSE do nothing. Then End.
In the activity diagram, do I merge both ways to one final state, ...
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How to create a use case diagram for board game played on PC
I'm struggling with a task as I was given to practice UML and use cases. The problem is that I should model computer version of a board game so I am unsure about a few things. obviously it does not ...
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Activity diagram, can merge node have more than 1 output?
There is a simple system, that allows users to do 4 things: ADD, EDIT, DELETE, PRINT data.
I am due to model it (I'm entirely new to UML activity diagrams) and from notation, I dont understand ...
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Is there any standard for design document [closed]
This question is purely from academic point of view. As part of the software engineering lab, a design document is to be created after generating the SRS. Is there any standard for creating the design ...
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How to indicate that a class might implement an interface?
Say I have a class User and an interface Administrator. Some users are administrator and can thus implement the interface. Most aren't, however, so it's false to say that "User implements ...
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How can I indicate if an object operates with another one in an UML class diagram?
Suppose I want to draw a class diagram of a DAO and an Entity. The DAO is used to load instances of the Entity from the database. How can I represent this relationship on my class diagram? Is this ...
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How can you denote the access modifiers “friend” and “protected friend” in UML?
The symbols for access modifiers that I know are relevant for many different languages:
public: +
private: -
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How to display in compositional relationship that the child knows about the parent?
I'm drawing a class diagram and noticed that sometimes I got a relationship (composition or aggregation) where the child class uses the parent class sometimes not.
What is the visual difference in a ...
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Need help understanding UML diagram
I'm focusing on trying to understand UML diagrams and learning to interpret them in order to implement the designs they describe. In the following diagram, I am not clear on what the implementation ...
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What to use in UML for included module in ruby?
I like to create simple class diagrams for my projects. Most of the time I just use composition, inheritence and associations.
IMB's basic UML resource tells all about this.
However I'm using ruby so ...
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Can we illustrate a CPU pipeline with a UML sequence diagram?
I study multicore pipelining and the diagrams are not UML sequence diagrams for instance
Why not remake this diagram like an UML sequence diagram, would not that be more clear so that we can see ...
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Where to set the model in this design (service-provider pattern)?
we are modelling an application using the "Service-Provider" pattern, where the service will offer a generic functionality implemented by different providers registered on the service.
The ...
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UML representation of type being passed as a parameter
I want to draw a UML diagram of my program. Class Barney has a method Yabadaba(Doo d) which takes a parameter of type Doo.
How do I represent that class Doo is used in class Barney in my UML diagram?
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What is the general format of a Software Design Specification?
I'm trying to document a piece of software I wrote in detail. An SAS is too high level and doesn't cover the API. I found several examples of an SDS online, but I don't see a trend in their format.
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UML sequence diagrams - include
I'm currently doing my OCPJEA assignment.
I have to draw several sequence diagrams for the use cases presented in the documentation. One of the use cases (A) state that after some interaction, the ...
