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Activity Diagrams can be used to describe internal processing as well as action-object flow. Since they do not focus on events and object interaction, it is not clear, how to combine them with the typical object-oriented diagrams like class and statechart diagrams. In this paper we propose to use activity diagrams as a bridge between use case diagrams and class diagrams. This gives three benefits: a smooth transition from business processes to use cases, an abstract specification of complex object interactions and a succinct description of system functions affecting several objects. This use of activity diagrams is embedded in an overall software development process characterized by a focus on user tasks during analysis and incremental class diagram development.
This work was funded by the Forschungsverbund ForSoft supported by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung.
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Paech, B. (1999). On the Role of Activity Diagrams in UML – A User Task Centered Development Process for UML. In: Bézivin, J., Muller, PA. (eds) The Unified Modeling Language. «UML»’98: Beyond the Notation. UML 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48480-6_21
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