Activity Diagram

Activity diagrams focuses on representing various activities and their sequence of activation. Activity diagrams are similar to the procedural flow charts. The main difference is that activity diagrams support description of parallel activities and synchronization aspects involved in different activities. Swim lanes enables you to group activities based on who is performing them.

Ex: Activity diagram for student admission procedure

State chart diagram

It is used to model how the state of an object changes in its life time. This diagram is good at describing how the bahaviour of an object changes across several use case executions. It is based on FSM formalism.

Representation of state chart diagram

Initial state: This represented as a filled circle Final state: this is represented y a filled circle inside a larger circle. State: Rectangles with rounded corners. Transition: arrow between two states. [guard]event/action guard is a boolean logic condition. Example: order processing with order as an object