Fundamentals of Rational Rose (Reading Notes)

Fundamentals of Rational Rose

Module 1: Visual Modeling and the UML

Summary:
Visual modeling Captures business process, Is a communication tool, Manages complexity, Promotes resuse.
The UML is the standard language for visualizing, specifying, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of a software-intensive system.

Module 2: Rose Modeling Basics

Summary:
Rational Rose uses views and diagrams to depict varying perspectives and a system's parts.
There are five views in Rational Rose: Use-Case View, Logic View, Process View, Component View (Implementation View), Deployment View.
Diagrams are a graphical means to view a system's parts.

The browser in the Rose tool shows all of your model elements.
The diagram tool-bar is unique to each diagram.
The Options window is used to set all of your defaults for modeling.
Elements deleted from the browser are deleted from the model.
Elements delete from the diagram are not necessarily deleted from the model.
You can add elements to a diagram from either the browser or diagram toolbar.

Module 3: Using Rose in a Team

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Module 4: The Use-Case Model

The use-case diagram is a visual representation of WHAT the customer wants the system to do.  Shows a sequence of actions a system performs that yield an observable result and is of value to a particular actor.

A use case is a sequence of actions performed by the system that yields a measurable value for an actor.

The navigation direction represents who is initiating the communication. The end with the arrow indicates who or what is receiving the communication. An association without an arrowhead denotes communication in both directions.

Flow of Events Does NOT describe user interface details.


Summary:
The use-case model is the visual contract between customer and developer and is a representation of the system's intend functions and its environment. It is created in the Use-Case View and include: Use-case diagrams, Use-case flow of events, Project artifacts, Activity diagrams.

A use-case diagram is an illustration that shows the relationships among use cases and actors and among related use cases. A use case represents a major piece of functionality that is complete from begining to end. An actor is someone or something outside the system that interacts with the system.

An associaton repationship is the most general relationship and indicates communication only. A flow of events is a text description of the use case. An activity diagram in the use-case model is the visual representation of the flow of events.

Module 5: Use-Case Realization Structure

Summary:
The use-case realization structure helps organize model elements necessary to "realize" the use cases in the design model. The structure includes: Use-case realization packages, Traceabilities diagrams, Interaction diagrams, Class diagrams.


Module 6: Interaction Diagrams

An interaction diagram models the dynamic aspects of the system by showing relationships among objects and the messages they may dispatch.

Sequence
Collaboration

Interaction diagrams visually capture a single instance of a use case's flow of events.

Summary:
Interaction diagrams show relationships among objects and model the dynamic aspects of the system. They are created in the Logical View under the appropriate use-case realization. There are 2 types of interaction diagrams: Sequence and Collaboration.

Both interaction diagrams are semantically equivalent. They simply show different perspectives. At least one interaction diagram is created for each flow through a use case. Interaction diagrams are made up of Actors, Objects and Messages.

Module 7: Class Diagrams

Analysis classes represent the FUNCTIONAL requirements of the problem domain. Design classes represent the NON-FUNCTIONAL requirements of the solution domain.

Summary:
Class diagrams show a set of classes, interfaces, and collaborations and their relationships. They are modeled in the Logical View and show the static view of the system. They are made up of the following elements: Class and Relationships (Association, Aggregations, Generalizations)

An aggregate association is a type of association in which a whole is related to its part(s). Association in a class diagram can be further defined with : Association Names, Role Names, Multiplicity. A generalization is a parent/child relationship where one class shares the structure and behavior of one or more classes.

Module 8: Introduction to Round-Trip engineering

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