Professional Documents
Culture Documents
System Modeling
– Existing system : to help clarify what the existing system does and
explore its strengths and weaknesses
• In its simplest form, a use case is shown as an ellipse with the actors
involved in the use case represented as stick figures.
• Exercise:
– Model the interactions between the actors and the objects in a system
and the interactions between the objects themselves.
– The objects and actors: listed along the top of the diagram, with a
dotted line drawn vertically.
– The rectangle on the dotted lines: the lifeline of the object concerned
(i.e., the time that object instance is involved in the computation).
3. In each case, the receptionist’s permissions are checked using the authorization
system.
4. Personal information may be transferred directly from the user interface object to
the PRS. Alternatively, a summary record may be created from the database and
that record is then transferred.
5. On completion of the transfer, the PRS issues a status message and the user logs
off.
• Class diagram
• Write the class name in a box. Association is drawn with a line between
classes