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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 Browser window, click on the element and select one of these access methods to display the Scenarios view, then click on Scenario Generation Dialog and select 'Robustness'.

Ribbon

Start > Desktop > Design > Scenario Editor

Context Menu

Browser window > Element | Scenarios | New Scenario > Scenario View

Browser window > Element > Scenarios | right-click on existing scenario | Structured Scenario Editor

Keyboard Shortcuts

Alt+1 > Scenario Editor

Other

On the 'Scenarios' tab of the Responsibilities window, click on the Edit button against a scenario (see the Scenarios Tab - Responsibilities Window Help topic)

On the 'Scenarios' tab of the element 'Properties' dialog, click on the Structure Editor button (see the Scenarios Tab - Properties Dialog Help topic)

Example

Showing a structured scenario for a robustness diagram.

The Robustness that represents a structured scenario.

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

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