UML Requirements Modeling for Business Analysts: Steps to Modeling Success

by Norman Daoust

Overview

This book provides you with a collection of best practices, guidelines, and tips for using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for business analysis. The contents have been assembled over the years based on experience and documented best practices. Over sixty easy to understand UML diagram examples will help you to apply these ideas immediately. If you use, expect to use, or think you should use the Unified Modeling Language (UML) or use cases in your business analysis activities, this book will help you:

communicate more succinctly and effectively with your stakeholders including your software development team,

increase the likelihood that your requirements will be reviewed and understood,

reduce requirements analysis, documentation, and review time.

The first three chapters explain the reasons for utilizing the UML for business analysis, present a brief history of the UML and its diagram categories, and describe a set of general modeling guidelines and tips applicable to all of the UML diagram types. Each of the next thirteen chapters is dedicated to a different UML diagram type:

1. Use Case Diagrams
2. Activity Diagrams
3. Interaction Overview Diagrams
4. Class Diagrams
5. Object Diagrams
6. State Machine Diagrams
7. Timing Diagrams
8. Sequence Diagrams
9. Communication Diagrams
10. Composite Structure Diagrams
11. Component Diagrams
12. Deployment Diagrams
13. Package Diagrams

The next two chapters explain additional diagram types that are important for business analysts and that can be created using UML notation:

Context Diagrams using Communication diagram notation

Data Models using Class diagram notation

These chapters are followed by a chapter that describes criteria for selecting the various diagram types. The final chapter presents a case study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935504245
Publisher:	Technics Publications, LLC
Publication date:	09/01/2012
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Norman Daoust is a business analyst trainer, requirements modeler, data modeler, healthcare electronic data exchange specialist, fretted instrument specialist, and organic gardener. He is the principal consultant for Daoust Associates, a company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. He specializes in business analyst training, information modeling, and healthcare systems data integration.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 2: UML Modeling for Business Analysis 11
UML History 12
UML Diagram Categories 12
CHAPTER 3: General UML Diagram Guidelines 15
Guidelines 15
Diagram Notation 16
Diagram Tips 18
How-to-Model Tips 19
Naming Guidelines 20
CHAPTER 4: Example Model Introduction 21
Somestate Department of Motor Vehicles Glossary 21
Somestate Department of Motor Vehicles Business Rules 22
CHAPTER 5: Use Case Models 23
Purpose 23
Guidelines 24
Diagram Notation 25
Diagram Examples 30
Diagram Tips 33
Use Case Template 34
Use Case Text Example 37
Use Case Text Formats 40
How-to-Model Tips 42
Naming Guidelines 48
Modeling Process Summary 50
Case Study Example Diagram 53
Relationship to Other UML Diagrams 54
CHAPTER 6: Activity Diagrams 55
Purpose 55
Guidelines 55
Diagram Notation 56
Diagram Examples 65
Diagram Tips 71
How-to-Model Tips 74
Naming Guidelines 74
Modeling Process Summary 75
Case Study Example Diagram 76
Relationship to Other UML Diagrams 78
CHAPTER 7: Interaction Overview Diagrams 79
Purpose 79
Guidelines 79
Diagram Notation 80
Diagram Example 86
Diagram Tips 88
How-to-Model Tips 88
Naming Guidelines 89
Modeling Process Summary 89
Case Study Example Diagram 90
Relationship to Other UML Diagrams 91
CHAPTER 8: Class Models 93
Purpose 94
Guidelines 95
Diagram Notation 95
Diagram Examples 100
Diagram Tips 102
Data Element List, Partial Example 105
Class Model, Partial Text Example 105
How-to-Model Tips 107
Naming Guidelines 111
Modeling Process Summary 112
Case Study Example Diagram 114
Relationship to Other UML Diagrams 115
 
CHAPTER 9: Object Diagrams 117
Purpose 117
Guidelines 117
Diagram Notation 118
Diagram Example 119
Diagram Tips 120
How-to-Model Tips 121
Naming Guidelines 121
Modeling Process Summary 121
Case Study Example Diagram 123
Relationship to Other UML Diagrams 124
CHAPTER 10: State Machine Models 125
Purpose 125
Guidelines 125
Diagram Notation 126
Diagram Examples 130
Diagram Tips 133
State Machine Table Example 134
How-to-Model Tips 134
Naming Guidelines 135
Modeling Process Summary 136
Case Study Example Diagram 137
Relationship to Other UML Diagrams 138
CHAPTER 11: Timing Diagrams 139
Purpose 139
Guidelines 139
Diagram Notation 139
Diagram Examples 143
Diagram Tips 145
How-to-Model Tips 146
Naming Guidelines 146
Modeling Process Summary 146
Case Study Example Diagram 147
Relationship to Other UML Diagrams 148
CHAPTER 12: Sequence Diagrams 149
Purpose 149