UML (Unified Modeling Language)
The Unified Modeling Language is a standard language for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems, as well as for business modeling and other non-software systems. The key is to organize the design process in a way that clients, analysts, programmers and other involved in system development can understand and agree on. The UML provides the organization. The UML was released in 1997 as a method to diagram software design, by some of the best minds in object oriented analysis and design. It is by far the most exciting thin to happen to the software industry in recent years. Every other engineering discipline has a standard method of documentation. Electronic engineers have schematic diagrams; architects and mechanical engineers have blueprints and mechanical diagrams. The software industry now has UML.
There are different types of UML diagrams. Each UML diagram is designed to let developers and customers view a software system from a different perspective and in varying degrees of abstraction. UML diagrams commonly created in visual modeling tools include: use case diagram which displays the relationship among actors and use cases. Class case diagram models class structure and contents using design elements such as classes, packages and objects. It also displays relationships such as containment, inheritance, associations and others. Sequence diagram displays the time sequence of the objects participation in the interaction. This consists of the vertical dimension (time) and horizontal dimension (different objects). Collaboration diagram displays an interaction organized around the objects and their links to one another. Numbers are used to show the sequence of messages. State diagram displays the sequences of states that an object of an interaction goes through during its life response to received stimuli, together with its response and actions. Activity diagram displays a special state diagram where most of the states are action states and most of the transitions are triggered by completion of the actions in the source states. This diagram focuses on flows driven by internal processing.
In this task I would be giving a diagrammatic representation of the organisational structure of my chosen organisation: Marks and Spencer and The British Heart Foundation. This report will include the functional areas and how these areas are dependent upon each other. I would also be describing how these business organisations are organised to achieve their purpose.
An organization chart is a diagram that represents the positions and relationship within an organization.
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Wood, p. 9. The definition can be broken down into four separate parts and they are as follows: process, systematic, symbols, and meaning. Process means that communication is ongoing and always in motion. Systematic focuses on how communication involves a group of interrelated parts that affect one another. Symbols are described as abstract, arbitrary, and ambiguous representations of other things.
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The explosive impact of computers and information technology on our everyday lives has generated a need to design and develop new computer software systems and to incorporate new technologies in a rapidly growing range of applications. The tasks performed by workers known as computer software engineers evolve quickly, reflecting new areas of specialization or changes in technology, as well as the preferences and practices of employers. Computer software engineers apply the principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the design, development, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that enable computers to perform their many applications. (1)
After all requirements have been gathered for a proposed system, they must be modeled. Models are created for visually represent the planned system so that business requirements can easily be associated with system items to ensure that all requirements have been completely and accurately gathered. In this paper, I will be discussing two types of modeling, and that is Physical modeling and Logical modeling.
Michael Duell of AG Communication Systems presented a novel approach that may be adapted to introduce design patterns. He compares the theory behind design patterns to a real world model, illustrating the workings of the pattern implementation by giving trivial examples that a developer may be better able to relate to than the formal explanations offered by GoF or Holub for example.
Use appropriate tools that support data gathering (e.g. affinity diagram, brainstorming, fishbone, flowchart, force field, how-how, interrelationship digraph)
Object-orientated programming is methodology which is organized around objects and not actions. The perspective that this approach takes is that it is easier to compare objects. Object-orientated programming can be used in conjunction with UML, and within Object-orientated programming and there are various different methods. Object-orientated programming can be defined as constructing a model of a real world through combining data and actions.
A data flow diagram (DFD) is a model which shows visual representation. The representation is comprised of information through systems, data and actors. These focus on how data is changed and being used during the process. DFD’s describes the system in many different process execution or collaboration of different process together as single process or bunch of data made into pieces are used in one or more process. The drawback of DFD is that no decisions are exposed and the processes are not sequential. To the simplest, a data flow diagram shows the flow of data in and out the system as specified in the requirement. It also gives the details of storage of information. DFD’s do not show the time taken by a process to change its state by the whole system. These are much useful for the visualization of data processing in the system, as to look what, where and to which data is being transferred. The data items may flow from internal data source to external data source or vice versa. DFD will not follow any algorithm, order of each and every execution on different circumstances.
The activity flow chart shows the different steps that have been taken in a complex operation. By breaking the steps down, it becomes easier for the analyst and law enforcement organizations to identify the misconduct of a complicated operation. The activity flow chart is also used along with other charts to help further demonstrate probable activity.
Explain in around 600 words, citing any literature you have consulted, what is meant by these terms in relation of object-oriented software design, and explain how they relate to the design you developed in your group.
They can be used to describe process workflow or the operational workflow of any component in a system. Sometimes for dynamic modeling is not a single, comprehensive chart type is UML available provided, but several special chart types that a modeling under various aspects permit. For the modeling of a process models, which combines the activities of the parties a central role play, the modeling offers through activity diagrams. With this, the flow of each individual block phase with the associated activities and results clearly modeled. The exact description of activities with detailed information of its purpose and the resources involved and people can be given in each case in writing to the clarity of the diagram is not to interfere. Also parallel activities are carried out principally unproblematic. So is the current guiding and pay a documentation as a single, parallel to the development process running activity