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Analysis Diagram

An Analysis diagram is a simplified Activity diagram, which is used to capture high level business processes and early models of system behavior and elements. It is less formal than some other diagrams, but provides a good means of capturing the essential business characteristics and requirements.

Enterprise Architect supports some of the Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions that facilitate business process modeling. The complete Eriksson-Penker Business Extensions UML Profile can also be loaded into Enterprise Architect and used to create detailed process models.

Example of an Analysis Diagram

Robustness diagrams, used extensively in ICONIX, can be created as Analysis diagrams.

Toolbox Elements and Connectors

Select Analysis diagram elements and connectors from the Analysis pages of the Toolbox.

Tip:

Click on the following elements and connectors for more information. The Information element is a simple flow-chart representation of data or input/output.

Analysis Diagram Elements

Analysis Diagram Connectors

e_Actor

c_InformationFlow

e_Object

c_ObjectFlow

e_process

c_Associate

e_Collaboration

c_Realize

e_Send

c_representation

e_Receive

 

e_information

 

e_informationItem

 

e_Decision

 

e_merge

 

e_Boundary

 

e_Control2

 

e_entity3