Kategorie: Unified Modeling Language

A sequence diagram is an interaction diagram that emphasizes the time-ordering of messages. It depicts the objects and classes involved in the scenario and the sequence of messages exchanged between the objects needed to carry out the functionality of the scenario. Typically, you’ll use one sequence diagram to specify a use case’s main flow, and variations of that diagram to specify a use case’s exceptional flows.

A use case is a list of actions or event steps that typically define the interaction between an actor (called an actor in Unified Modeling Language (UML)) and a system to achieve a goal. Actors can be people or other external systems. In systems engineering, use cases are used at a higher level than in software engineering and usually represent task or stakeholder goals.