1. Activity Diagrams
Dan Fleck
Coming up: Activity Diagram

2. Activity Diagram
Supplements the use-case by providing a diagrammatic representation of procedural flow
Details:
Start is a single circle
End is a bulls-eye
Decisions are diamonds (guards must be on both branches of the diamond!)
Questions:
Do we always have a start?
Do we always have an end?
How might we make this better?
Coming up: Swimlane Diagrams

3. Swimlane Diagrams
Allows the modeler to represent the flow of activities described by the use-case and at the same time indicate which actor (if there are multiple actors involved in a specific use-case) or analysis class has responsibility for the action described by an activity rectangle
Diagram from Netbeans UML (UMLProject1)
Coming up: Activity Diagram Example

4. Activity Diagram Example
Fork/Branch
To show concurrent activity, activity diagrams allow branches and joins.
You can also reference or include other activity diagrams
Got here Class -- Sept 30th 2008
Join
Coming up: Lets Try It

5. Lets Try It
Lets create a swimlane activity diagram for opening a Lemonade stand.
Let’s create a swimlane diagram to apply for and get a job when you graduate.
Software that translates voice commands into user input (for whatever OS you use)
Let’s create a swimlane diagram for withdrawing money from an ATM. – Nope – this is essentially the homework for next week!
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