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Workflow modeling
Activity Diagrams
OOAD 1 • Models functional logic logic of the system in question • Provide valuable insight in modeling workflow, describing use cases and specifying operations • Very much similar to flow charts, but different in that they support parallel behavior • Focus on flow driven by internal processing (as opposed to external events)
Activity diagrams 2 • A workflow shows how work is being carried out in a business • Workflow model may consists of the following • A set of sequentially performed activities representing the tasks to be accomplished • A set of decisions that guide the flow of control based on conditions that are encountered during the workflow • A set of partitions that allocate the activities among the responsible parties that participate in the workflow • A set of terminal activities that indicate the start and end of the workflow • A set of regions that indicate repetition and concurrency
Modeling Workflow 3
& Use cases
• Customer placing order at POS • Creation of a record on a system • Activating user accounts • Or just any process that may involve several steps or activities that use a system
Examples of workflow 4 • May be used to show the implementation of complex operations/methods/subroutines/functions • Need to show the sequence of data manipulation and transformation, looping and decision logic • Maybe very useful as it translates quite well to pseudo code or native code • May help one to see all the requirements clearly
Modeling operations 5 Activity •Process were some work is being done •Must have an entry action and atleast one outgoing transition
Start State End State
Shows the start of an Shows the end of an activity. activity.
Transition/Flow/Edge Specifies the flow of control Activity diagram for grade between states.
activity diagrams • Used for making decisions within an activity flow • Route the flow of one outgoing edge • Has guards to specify more information on one of the outgoing edges
Decision node Guard
Represented as diamond Specifies information Must have 1 entry transition About the transition such And atleast 2 outgoing As condition for following the transition Transition. Note that guards are effectively Boolean conditions 8
Decision node • Bring together multiple alternate flows • All controls and data arriving at a merge node are immediately passed to the outgoing edge • There is no synchronization of flows or joining of tokens
merge
Merge Nodes 9 • Fork allow parallel processes to Fork begin • Each branch is effectively a separate activity diagram • Control flows do not have to wait for each other to complete • Join allows parallel processes to catch up and resume a single-process flow Join
Fork & Join nodes 10
Partition label • Splits behavior according to classes or organizational units • They are done using swim lane notation • Allows one to represent flow of activities according to actors
Vertical Activity Partition
•Actions for an order can be separated into different departments. •Partitions could have also been made horizontal. •Number of swim lanes is dependent on the separations one wants to have. 11
Activity Partition 12 13 14 • Example scenario and an activity diagram • Pick a scenario from any of the previous examples and draw activity diagrams in VP. See tutorial for more examples
