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Activity & State Diagram

The document explains Activity and State Chart Diagrams, highlighting their purposes and how to create them. Activity diagrams represent the flow of activities in a system, while State Chart Diagrams describe the different states of a component and how they change in response to events. Both diagrams are essential for modeling workflows and understanding system functionalities, particularly in an Order Management System context.

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Activity & State Diagram

The document explains Activity and State Chart Diagrams, highlighting their purposes and how to create them. Activity diagrams represent the flow of activities in a system, while State Chart Diagrams describe the different states of a component and how they change in response to events. Both diagrams are essential for modeling workflows and understanding system functionalities, particularly in an Order Management System context.

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Activity and State Chart Diagram

Activity Diagram
• It does not show any message flow from one activity
to another.
• Activity diagram is some time considered as the flow
chart. Although the diagrams looks like a flow chart
but it is not.
• It shows different flow like parallel, branched,
concurrent and single
• Activity diagram is basically:
– A flow chart to represent the flow form one activity to
another activity.
– The activity can be described as an operation of the system
Purpose
• So the purposes can be described as:
– Draw the activity flow of a system.
– Describe the sequence from one activity to
another.
– Describe the parallel, branched and concurrent
flow of the system
How to make an Activity Diagram?
• The main element of an activity diagram:
• The activity itself: An activity is a function
performed by the system.
• After identifying the activities we need to
understand how they are associated with
constraints and conditions.
• Activities
• Association
• Conditions
• Constraints
Order Management System
• The activity diagram is made to understand the
flow of activities and mainly used by the
business users
• The following diagram is drawn with the four
main activities:
– Send order by the customer
– Receipt of the order
– Confirm order
– Dispatch order
• After receiving the order request condition
checks are performed to check if it is normal
or special order.
• After the type of order is identified dispatch
activity is performed and that is marked as the
termination of the process
Description
• it gives high level view of a system. This high
level view is mainly for business users or any
other person who is not a technical person.
• Following are the main usages of activity
diagram:
– Modeling work flow by using activities.
– Modeling business requirements.
– High level understanding of the system's
functionalities.
– Investigate business requirements at a later stage.
State Chart Diagram
• It describes different states of a component in
a system. The states are specific to a
component/object of a system.
• It describes a state machine.
• A machine which defines different states of an
object and these states are controlled by
external or internal events.
Purpose
• They define different states of an object
during its lifetime.
• These states are changed by events. So
Statechart diagrams are useful to model
reactive systems.
• Reactive systems can be defined as a system
that responds to external or internal events.
• States are defined as a condition in which an
object exists and it changes when some event is
triggered
• To model life time of an object from creation to
termination.
• Following are the main purposes:
– To model dynamic aspect of a system.
– To model life time of a reactive system.
– To describe different states of an object during its
life time.
– Define a state machine to model states of an object.
How to draw Statechart Diagram?
• The emphasis is given on the state changes
upon some internal or external events
• Before drawing a Statechart diagram we must
have clarified the following points:
– Identify important objects to be analyzed.
– Identify the states
– Identify the events
Order Management System
• Order object is analyzed
• The first state is an idle state from where the
process starts.
• The next states are arrived for events like send
request, confirm request, and dispatch order
• It goes through the following states and there
may be some abnormal exists also
• This abnormal exit may occur due to some
problem in the system
• The initial and final state of an object is also
shown below
Description
• When implementing a system it is very
important to clarify different states of an
object during its life time and statechart
diagrams are used for this purpose.
• When these states and events are identified
they are used to model it and these models
are used during implementation of the
system.

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