University Institute of Engineering

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE &

ENGINEERING
Subject Name: Software Engineering
Subject Code: 23CST-206

Er. Jagmeet Kaur

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DISCOVER . LEARN . EMPOWER
CSE

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 Topics covered
• Interaction Diagram

• Activity Diagram

• State Chart Diagram

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 Interaction Diagram
• The purpose of interaction diagram is −
• To capture the dynamic behavior of a system.
• To describe the message flow in the system.
• To describe the structural organization of the objects.
• To describe the interaction among objects.

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 Interaction Diagram
• Following things are to be identified clearly before drawing the
interaction diagram
• Objects taking part in the interaction.
• Message flows among the objects.
• The sequence in which the messages are flowing.
• Object organization.

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Interaction Diagram

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 Behavior Diagrams
• Activity Diagrams
• We use Activity Diagrams to illustrate the flow of control in a system.
• We can also use an activity diagram to refer to the steps involved in
the execution of a use case.
• We model sequential and concurrent activities using activity
diagrams. describe or depict what causes a particular event using an
activity diagram.

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 Activity Diagram
• The purpose of an activity diagram can be described as −
• Draw the activity flow of a system.
• Describe the sequence from one activity to another.
• Describe the parallel, branched and concurrent flow of the system.

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 Activity Diagram
• Activity diagrams are mainly used as a flowchart that consists of
activities performed by the system. Activity diagrams are not exactly
flowcharts as they have some additional capabilities. These additional
capabilities include branching, parallel flow etc.
• Before drawing an activity diagram, we should identify the following
elements −
• Activities
• Association
• Conditions
• Constraints
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 Activity Diagram
• Following diagram is drawn with the four main activities −
• Send order by the customer
• Receipt of the order
• Confirm the order
• Dispatch the order

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 Activity Diagram
• Activity diagram can be used for −
• Modeling work flow by using activities.
• Modeling business requirements.
• High level understanding of the system's functionalities.
• Investigating business requirements at a later stage.

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 State chart Diagram
• State chart diagram is one of the five UML diagrams used to model
the dynamic nature of a system. They define different states of an
object during its lifetime and these states are changed by events
• Following are the main purposes of using State chart diagrams −
• To model the dynamic aspect of a system.
• To model the life time of a reactive system.
• To describe different states of an object during its life time.
• Define a state machine to model the states of an object.

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 Behavior Diagrams
• State Machine Diagrams
• A state diagram is used to represent the condition of the system or part
of the system at finite instances of time.
• It’s a behavioral diagram and it represents the behavior using finite
state transitions. State diagrams are also referred to as State
machines and State-chart Diagrams .
• These terms are often used interchangeably.
• So simply, a state diagram is used to model the dynamic behavior of a
class in response to time and changing external stimuli.

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 How to Draw a State chart Diagram?
• State chart diagram is used to describe the states of different objects
in its life cycle. Emphasis is placed on the state changes upon some
internal or external events.
• Before drawing a State chart diagram we should clarify the following
points −
• Identify the important objects to be analyzed.
• Identify the states.
• Identify the events.

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State Chart Diagram

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 Where to Use State chart Diagrams?
• The main usage can be described as −
• To model the object states of a system.
• To model the reactive system. Reactive system consists of reactive
objects.
• To identify the events responsible for state changes.
• Forward and reverse engineering.

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 REFERENCES
Reference Books:
1. Suman Ugrasen, “Software Engineering - Concepts and Practices”, First Edition, Cengage.
2. Mohammad Ali Shaikh, “Software Engineering with UML”, Third Edition, Notion Press.
3. Somerville Ian, “Software Engineering”, Addison Wesley, 8th Edition.
Text Books:
4. Pressman Rogers, “Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach”, Sixth edition. Patterson
and Hennessy, “Computer Architecture” , Fifth Edition Morgaon Kauffman.
5. Rajib Mall, “Fundamentals of Software Engineering’’, Fourth Edition, Pearson, PHI.
Image References
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/unified-modeling-language-uml-introduction/
https://www.uml.org/

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THANK YOU

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