SYSTEM ANALYSIS

AND DESIGN
CCS 2106
DESIGN DIAGRAMS

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Drawing Activity Diagram’

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Objectives’
 Definition
Purpose
Components
Drawing Diagram

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Defn’
 It’s a diagram that visually presents a series of actions or
flow of control in a system.
Its like a flowchart that represent the flow from one activity
to another activity.

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Purpose’
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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Components’
1. Start/Initial State
2. Activity/action State
3. Action Flow
4. Decision Node/Guard Node
5. Fork Node
6. Join Node
7. Swim Lane
8. End/Final State

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Components’
 Initial State/start point
Represents the initial action state for any activity diagram
A small filled circle followed by an arrow
Every activity diagram begins with this.

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Components’
Activity or Action State

represents the task to be performed

Action Flow
show the transition from one activity state

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Components’
Decision node/guard node and Branching
Used to make a decision before deciding the flow of control

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Cont’
 Fork Node
Split behavior into a set of parallel or concurrent flows of
activities.

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Cont’
 Join Node

Bring back together a set of parallel or concurrent flows of

activities

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Cont’
Swimlanes
 Used for grouping related activities in one column. They group
related activities into one column or one row
We use a rectangular column to represent a swimlane

Final State or End State

Signifies end of an activity/process
We use a filled circle within a circle

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Drawing Activity Diagram’
Steps

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Activity Diagram’
 Step 1: Consider the operation of withdrawing from an
ATM.
We first need to identify the swimlanes needed
Customer
ATM
Bank

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Cont’
 Step 2: When a customer inserts an ATM card the Atm
validates the card. If its valid, it requests the user to enter the
PIN, if invalid, it rejects the card and ejects it and ends.

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Cont’
 Once the user enters the Pin, its validated by the bank.if the
pin is correct, the user is asked to enter amount. If attempts
are below three the user keeps on being asked to enter the
pin.Once the attempts reach three the card gets blocked.

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Cont’
 Once the user enters amount, the amount is checked against
the available balance. If the amount is less than the balance,
the amount is dispensed to the user and account balance
reduced. The card is ejected and receipt dispensed too.

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Cont’
 If the funds available are insufficient, the card is ejected and
insufficient receipt printed.

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Complete’
 Full Diagram.

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