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    This document provides an overview of UML class diagrams: - A class diagram models the structure of a system by showing classes, interfaces, and their relationships. Classes represent important entities, interfaces define functionality, and relationships show how they work together. - The document explains how to identify classes, interfaces, attributes, methods, and relationships when modeling a system. It also provides an example of modeling a courseware management system as a class diagram.

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    This document provides an overview of UML class diagrams: - A class diagram models the structure of a system by showing classes, interfaces, and their relationships. Classes represent important entities, interfaces define functionality, and relationships show how they work together. - The document explains how to identify classes, interfaces, attributes, methods, and relationships when modeling a system. It also provides an example of modeling a courseware management system as a class diagram.

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    This document provides an overview of UML class diagrams: - A class diagram models the structure of a system by showing classes, interfaces, and their relationships. Classes represent important entities, interfaces define functionality, and relationships show how they work together. - The document explains how to identify classes, interfaces, attributes, methods, and relationships when modeling a system. It also provides an example of modeling a courseware management system as a class diagram.

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    This document provides an overview of UML class diagrams: - A class diagram models the structure of a system by showing classes, interfaces, and their relationships. Classes represent important entities, interfaces define functionality, and relationships show how they work together. - The document explains how to identify classes, interfaces, attributes, methods, and relationships when modeling a system. It also provides an example of modeling a courseware management system as a class diagram.

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    The key takeaways are that a UML class diagram models the structure and relationships of classes and objects in a system. It identifies the main classes, their attributes and methods, and how they relate and interact with each other.

    A UML class diagram models the structure of a system by representing classes, their attributes, methods, and the relationships between classes. The main elements are classes, interfaces, attributes, operations, and relationships such as association, generalization, and dependency.

    To identify classes from a use case model, we first identify the active entities or actors involved. We then identify the passive business domain entities. Finally, we define the responsibilities or methods of each class.

    UML CLASS DIAGRAMS

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    Basics of UML Class Diagrams


    What is a UML class diagram? Imagine
    you were given the task of drawing a
    family tree. The steps you would take
    would be:
    Identify the main members of the family
    Identify how they are related to each other
    Find the characteristics of each family
    member
    Determine relations among family members
    Decide the inheritance of personal traits and
    characters
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    Basics of UML Class Diagrams


    A UML class diagram is similar to a family tree.
    A class diagram consists of a group of classes and
    interfaces reflecting important entities of the
    business domain of the system being modeled, and
    the relationships between these classes and
    interfaces.
    The classes and interfaces in the diagram represent
    the members of a family tree and the relationships
    between the classes are analogous to relationships
    between members in a family tree.
    Interestingly, classes in a class diagram are
    interconnected in a hierarchical fashion, like a set of
    parent classes (the grand patriarch or matriarch of
    the family, as the case may be) and related child
    classes under the parent classes.
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    Basics of UML Class Diagrams


    Similarly, a software application is comprised of
    classes
    and
    a
    diagram
    depicting
    the
    relationship between each of these classes
    would be the class diagram.
    By definition, a class diagram is a diagram
    showing a collection of classes and interfaces,
    along with the collaborations and relationships
    among classes and interfaces
    A class diagram is a pictorial representation of
    the detailed system design
    Now you now know what a class diagram is.
    But, how does a class diagram relate to the use
    case diagrams thatthat we learned before?
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    Basics of UML Class Diagrams


    When you designed the use cases,
    you must have realized that the use
    cases talk about "what are the
    requirements" of a system.
    The aim of designing classes is to
    convert this "what" to a "how" for
    each requirement
    Each use case is further analyzed
    and broken up into atomic
    components that form the basis for
    the classes that need to be designed
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    Elements of a Class Diagram

    A class diagram is composed primarily of the


    following elements that represent the system's
    business entities:
    Class: A class represents an entity of a given
    system that provides an encapsulated
    implementation of certain functionality of a
    given entity. These are exposed by the class to
    other classes asmethods
    Apart from business functionality, a class also
    has properties that reflect unique features of a
    class. The properties of a class are
    calledattributes.
    As an example, take a class named Student.
    The Student class encapsulates student information
    such as student id #, student name, and so forth.
    Student id, studentTechM
    name,
    and so on are the
    Internal
    attributes of the Student class. The Student class also

    Elements of a Class Diagram.

    A class is represented by a rectangle.


    The following diagram shows a
    typical class in a class diagram:

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    Elements of a Class Diagram.

    Interface: An interface is a variation of a class.


    As we saw from the previous point,
    a class provides an encapsulated
    implementation of certain business
    functionality of a system. An interface on the
    other hand provides only a definition of
    business functionality of a system. A separate
    class implements the actual business
    functionality.
    An interface shares the same features as a
    class; in other words, it contains attributes and
    methods. The only difference is that that the
    methods are only declared in the interface and
    will be implemented by the class implementing
    the interface.
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    Elements of a Class Diagram.

    Package: provides the ability to group


    together classes and/or interfaces that
    are either similar in nature or related.
    Grouping these design elements in a
    package element provides for better
    readability of class diagrams, especially
    complex class diagrams.

    Figure a package
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    Relationship Between Classes

    The following table shows the kinds of relationships


    between classes, their notation, and what they mean

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    Relationship Between Classes.

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    The UML Class Diagram in Action


    Case studyCourseware Management System

    In the use case lecture, we identified the primary


    actors and use cases in the use case model of the
    case study.
    Let us recap the analysis that was performed when
    the use case model was designed.
    The following terms and entities specific to the
    system were identified from the problem statement:
    Courses and Topics that make up a course
    Tutors who teach courses
    Course administrators who mange the assignment of the
    courses to tutors
    Calendar or Course Schedule is generated as a result of
    the Students who refer to the Course schedule or
    Calendar to decide which courses for which they wish to
    sign up
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    The UML Class Diagram in Action.


    Case studyCourseware Management System

    The potential actors of the system


    were:
    Tutors
    Course administrators
    Students

    And the use cases of the system were:

    View courses
    Manage topics for a course
    Manage course information
    View course calendar
    View tutors
    Manage tutor information
    Assign courses to tutors
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    The UML Class Diagram in Action.

    Identify the "active" entities in the system


    Identifying classes of the Courseware Management System

    So, our first list of classes in the system


    appears to be:
    Course administrators
    Tutors
    Students

    Identify business domain ("passive")


    entities in the system
    These entities reflect the business domain and
    hence are potential classes for our system.
    Courses
    Topics that make up a course
    Course calendar generated
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    The UML Class Diagram in Action.

    So, the list the list of classes and


    interfaces that we have identified in
    the Courseware Management
    System.
    Identifying classes of the Courseware Management System

    Course Administrator
    Tutor
    Student
    Course
    Topic
    Course Calendar

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    The classes that we have identified


    for the Courseware Management
    System also provide business
    functionality related to the
    application
    Example the courseadministrator
    class have the following functionality
    (methods):
    The UML Class Diagram in Action.

    Identifying methods of the Courseware Management System

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    Other classes have methods as


    shown in the figure below?
    The UML Class Diagram in Action.

    Identifying methods of the Courseware Management System

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    The UML Class Diagram in Action.


    Identifying relationship and drawing the class diagram

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    Other examples of Class


    Diagrams

    Seminar Management System

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    QUESTIONS

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