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Sequence Diagram Tutorial

1. Download and install EventStudio System Designer for a 45 day free trial. 2. Create a new Scenario Project from a template and modify the FDL file contents to add message statements. 3. The FDL syntax is intuitive and allows specifying system architecture, message interactions, and macros to generate sequence diagrams from the FDL code.

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Sequence Diagram Tutorial

1. Download and install EventStudio System Designer for a 45 day free trial. 2. Create a new Scenario Project from a template and modify the FDL file contents to add message statements. 3. The FDL syntax is intuitive and allows specifying system architecture, message interactions, and macros to generate sequence diagrams from the FDL code.

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Getting Started with EventStudio System Designer 4.

0
1 Download and install EventStudio System Designer (45 day free trial).
(Download link: http://www.eventhelix.com/EventStudio/Download.htm)

2 Click on the New


Document icon.

Step
3 Select
3: Select
Scenario
Scenario
Project
Project
from Template
from Template
and clickand
click OK.
OK.

4 Select Starter Scenario


Project (Simple) and click Next.
5 Change the Project and FDL
names and click Finish.

6 After you click Finish, EventStudio


generates a PDF sequence diagram
from the initial contents.
7 Double click on the 8 Modify the FDL file contents 9 FDL syntax is intuitive.
Top entry to open the in the editor window. For this You may also refer to the
corresponding FDL file. tutorial, add the lines shown in user’s manual.
the shaded box.

10 Click on the Quick Save and


Display icon. EventStudio
automatically updates the PDF
sequence diagram.

11 The newly added message statement has


been added to the PDF sequence diagram.
12 Now let’s learn more about the Feature Description Language (FDL) and the FDL development in
EventStudio.

#include "inc.fdl" Include file to share common definitions


and macros.
/* TODO: Replace Module_A architecture with your declarations. */
module : Module_A
processor : Proc_A_1 in Module_A, Proc_A_2 in Module_A
eternal : Object_A_1 in Proc_A_1, You in Proc_A_1 System architecture is specified with
eternal : Object_A_2 in Proc_A_2 modules that contain processors
.processors that in
/* TODO: Replace Module_B architecture with your declarations. */
module : Module_B
processor : Proc_B_1 in Module_B, Proc_B_2 in Module_B
eternal : Object_B_1 in Proc_B_1, Me in Proc_B_1
eternal : Object_B_2 in Proc_B_2 Processors in turn contain eternal and
dynamic objects.
/* TODO: Replace the body with your implementation. */
{MyTheme} feature "Hello Goodbye"
Message statements can be prefixed with a
"My Message" (param="A") : Me -> You
(* Added a new message. *) style specification.
/* TODO: Add your message interactions */
[msg1_style] Goodbye(reason="Nothing in Particular") : You -> Me
(* You say Goodby... *)
[msg2_style] Hello : Me -> You (* ...and I say Hello. *) An action statement.
[act_style] You, Me take action "Hello World!"
MSG_AND_ACK(Msg, Me, Object_B_1) A macro definition that
METHOD_AND_RETURN(StartOperation, Me, Object_B_1) expands to multiple
interactions in the diagram.
endfeature

Click the Generate All icon More examples.


to generate all the
documents.

Double click on the documents here. Some of


diagrams in this project are:

 Processor and module level sequence diagrams


 Collaboration diagram
 EMF sequence diagram for export to MS Word.

13 We have just scratched the surface of what you can do with EventStudio. Download the
complete software development cycle tutorial from:
http://www.eventhelix.com/Eventstudio/Tutorial/Use_Case_Sequence_Diagram_Tutorial.pdf

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