UML for Requirements Analysis

UML for Requirements Analysis

Summary

This course demonstrates how the Unified Modelling Language (UML) can be used to uncover, analyse and document software requirements. Business Process Models, Use Case Diagrams, Domain Models and Statecharts are all produced as part of an extensive hands-on and realistic case study.

Detailed Course Description

Introducing UML:

• Models vs Diagrams
• Class Diagram
• State Chart
• Interaction Diagram
• Use Case Diagram
• Deployment Diagram
• Activity Diagram
• Stereotypes.

Business Modelling:

• Beginning the Analysis
• Business Model
• Business Processes
• Using the UML to model processes
• UML Stereotypes
• Eriksson-Penker extensions
• Business Process Overviews
• Business Actors
• Business Workers
• Case Workers
• Process Activity Diagram.

Use Cases:

• Use Cases as structured requirements
• Granularity of Use Cases
• Actors
• Discovering Use Cases from Business Processes
• Primary and Secondary Actors
• Ranking Use Cases
• Specifying Use Cases
• Use Case Descriptions
• Non functional requirements
• Preconditions
• Postconditions
• Main Flow
• Extension Flows
• Style Guidelines.

The Domain Model:

• Domain Modelling
• Finding Classes
• Notation in the UML
• Attributes
• Associations
• Multiplicities
• CRUD Matrices.