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Generate Robustness Diagram

When you create a scenario on an element and then generate a Robustness diagram, a Collaboration is created as a child of the selected element to act as a container for the Robustness diagram.

Access

On a diagram or in the Project Browser, select an element and use one of these access paths to display the 'Structured Specification' tab, then click on Scenario Generation Dialog and select 'Robustness'.

Ribbon

Design > Element > Responsibilities > Scenarios > Structured Specification

Design > Element > Properties > Properties Dialog > Responsibilities > Scenarios > Structured Specification

Context Menu

Right-click on element | Properties | Responsibilities > Scenarios > Structured Specification

Keyboard Shortcuts

Alt+Enter > Scenarios > Structured Specification   or

Ctrl+Shift+3 > Scenarios > Structured Specification  or

Shift+Alt+S > Structured Specification

Other

Double-click on element > Scenarios > Structured Specification

Notes

  • All the elements involved in the scenario should be identified in the 'Context Reference' tab; that is, relationships must already exist between the scenario parent element and the other elements named in the scenario
  • Any values in the 'Uses', 'Results' and 'State' columns are ignored and not represented in the diagram
  • Each UI element in a step becomes a Boundary element; a Dependency relationship is created from this Boundary element to the UI element (this connector is not shown on the diagram)
  • Each Actor referenced in a step is dropped into the Robustness diagram as a simple link
  • Each Class referenced in a step is dropped into the Robustness diagram as a simple link, and is given the stereotype entity
  • Each step with a System trigger becomes a Controller; alternate/exception path Controllers are displayed with a red background color
  • Each step with a User trigger becomes the name of the Association between Controllers

Example

Showing a structured scenario for a robustness diagram.

The Robustness that represents a structured scenario.

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