UML for Software Analysis and Design

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Course Outline

• Delegate background and objectives

• Timetable and course outline

• Advantages of graphical notations

• History of UML

• Key UML diagrams

• Business process models

• Requirements capture

• Static and dynamic models

• Comparison with traditional requirements

• Workshops and GUI prototypes

• Model users as actors

• External systems and timers

• Actor definition and notation

• Actor generalisation

• Use case definition and notation

• Use case scenarios

• Use case diagrams

• Use case specification

• Use cases drive development

• Include relationship

• Extend relationship

• Use case inheritance

• Model business activities and workflow

• Sequential activities

• Subactivities

• Decision and merge (conditional logic)

• Fork and join (parallel activities)

• Object states and action pins

• Send, accept and time signals

• Swimlanes (responsibility)

• Model real world concepts

• Classes and objects

• Object identity and responsibilities

• Encapsulation of attributes

• Objects as intelligent black boxes

• What makes a good class

• How to discover classes

• Whole-part relationships (aggregation)

• Generalisation-specialisation (inheritance)

• Polymorphism

• Class definition and notation

• Attributes, operations and parameters

• Visibility

• Associations and multiplicity

• Whole-part relationships (aggregation)

• Generalisation-specialisation (inheritance)

• Attribute scope and properties

• Class multiplicity

• Parameter direction of operations

• Roles and association qualifier

• Constraints

• Reflexive associations

• Association classes and derived information

• Stereotypes and tagged values

• Additional class compartments

• Nested classes and composition

• Abstract classes and operations

• Multiple inheritance

• Designing component-based systems

• Building and buying components

• Understanding interfaces and services

• Logical component architecture

• Physical deployment nodes

• Object collaboration and messaging

• Map use cases to the class model

• Classes, responsibilities and collaborations

• Boundary, control and entity classes

• Object notation and lifelines

• Message passing and sequencing

• Actors and the system boundary

• Asynchronous messages

• Create and delete objects

• Interaction frames for loops and decisions

• Centralised verses distributed control

• Object notation and links

• Message passing and sequencing

• Actors and the system boundary

• Asynchronous messages

• Alternative paths and loops

• When to use state machines

• Object lifecycles and states

• Transitions and events

• Actions

• Entry, exit and do events

• Internal events and self-transitions

• Guard conditions and automatic transitions

• Nested states and the history symbol

• Concurrent states

• Advantages of design patterns

• Document design patterns

• Creational patterns (factory, singleton)

• Structural patterns (composite, adaptor, bridge)

• Behavioural patterns (state, iterator, command)

• Persistence and relational databases

• Wrapper classes and factories

• Store classes and attributes

• Record associations

• Many to many relationships

• Mapping inheritance

• Role play to identify processes and activities

• Build business process model

• Create use case model

• Planning session

• Capture requirements (use case specifications)

• Model use case logic as an activity diagram

• Construct domain model

• Explore object interactions

• Analyse object states