Describing Use-Case Relationships with Sequence Diagrams

  • Authors:
  • Jesús M. Almendros-Jiménez;Luis Iribarne

  • Affiliations:
  • *Corresponding author: jalmen@ual.es;Departamento de Lenguajes y Computación, Information Systems Group, University of Almeria 04120 Almeria, Spain

  • Venue:
  • The Computer Journal
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

One of the key tools of the unified modelling language for behaviour modelling is the use-case model. The behaviour of a use case can be described by means of interaction diagrams (sequence and collaboration diagrams), activity charts and state diagrams or by pre-conditions and post-conditions, as well as natural language text, where appropriate. This article explains a technique to describe use cases by means of sequence diagrams. It compares sequence diagrams in order to define sequence-diagram relationships for identifying and defining use-case relationships. This article uses an automatic teller machine system case study to illustrate our proposal.