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The document discusses different types of UML behavioral diagrams including use case diagrams, interaction diagrams, state-chart diagrams, and activity diagrams. It provides examples and descriptions of each diagram type using an automated trading house system as an example domain.

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Ooad Uml Behavioural Diagrams

The document discusses different types of UML behavioral diagrams including use case diagrams, interaction diagrams, state-chart diagrams, and activity diagrams. It provides examples and descriptions of each diagram type using an automated trading house system as an example domain.

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UML BEHAVIOURAL DIAGRAMS

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UML behavioral diagrams visualize, specify, construct, and document the dynamic aspects of a
system. The behavioral diagrams are categorized as follows: use case diagrams, interaction
diagrams, state–chart diagrams, and activity diagrams.

Use Case Model

a Use case
A use case describes the sequence of actions a system performs yielding visible results. It shows
the interaction of things outside the system with the system itself. Use cases may be applied to the
whole system as well as a part of the system.

b Actor
An actor represents the roles that the users of the use cases play. An actor may be a person
e. g. student, customer, a device e. g. workstation, or another system e. g. bank, institution.

The following figure shows the notations of an actor named Student and a use case called
Generate Performance Report.

c Use case diagrams


Use case diagrams present an outside view of the manner the elements in a system behave and
how they can be used in the context.

Use case diagrams comprise of:

Use cases
Actors
Relationships like dependency, generalization, and association

Use case diagrams are used:

To model the context of a system by enclosing all the activities of a system within a rectangle
and focusing on the actors outside the system by interacting with it.

To model the requirements of a system from the outside point of view.

Example

Let us consider an Automated Trading House System. We assume the following features of the
system:

The trading house has transactions with two types of customers, individual customers and
corporate customers.
Once the customer places an order, it is processed by the sales department and the
customer is given the bill.

The system allows the manager to manage customer accounts and answer any queries
posted by the customer.

Interaction Diagrams
Interaction diagrams depict interactions of objects and their relationships. They also include the
messages passed between them. There are two types of interaction diagrams:

Sequence Diagrams
Collaboration Diagrams

Interaction diagrams are used for modeling:


the control flow by time ordering using sequence diagrams.

the control flow of organization using collaboration diagrams.

Sequence Diagrams
Sequence diagrams are interaction diagrams that illustrate the ordering of messages according to
time.

Notations : These diagrams are in the form of two-dimensional charts. The objects that initiate
the interaction are placed on the x–axis. The messages that these objects send and receive are
placed along the y–axis, in the order of increasing time from top to bottom.

Example : A sequence diagram for the Automated Trading House System is shown in the following
figure.
Collaboration Diagrams
Collaboration diagrams are interaction diagrams that illustrate the structure of the objects that
send and receive messages.

Notations : In these diagrams, the objects that participate in the interaction are shown using
vertices. The links that connect the objects are used to send and receive messages. The message
is shown as a labeled arrow.

Example : Collaboration diagram for the Automated Trading House System is illustrated in the
figure below.

State–Chart Diagrams
A state–chart diagram shows a state machine that depicts the control flow of an object from one
state to another. A state machine portrays the sequences of states which an object undergoes due
to events and their responses to events.

State–Chart Diagrams comprise of:

States: Simple or Composite


Transitions between states
Events causing transitions
Actions due to the events

State-chart diagrams are used for modeling objects which are reactive in nature.

Example

In the Automated Trading House System, let us model Order as an object and trace its sequence.
The following figure shows the corresponding state–chart diagram.

Activity Diagrams
An activity diagram depicts the flow of activities which are ongoing non-atomic operations in a
state machine. Activities result in actions which are atomic operations.

Activity diagrams comprise of:

Activity states and action states


Transitions
Objects

Activity diagrams are used for modeling:


workflows as viewed by actors, interacting with the system.
details of operations or computations using flowcharts.

Example

The following figure shows an activity diagram of a portion of the Automated Trading House
System.
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