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INTERVIEW QUESTION:

Name and describe the different categories of UML diagrams.

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Categories: Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Unified Modeling Language (UML)

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There are 3 categories of UML Diagrams:

Structure Diagrams: Diagrams that model elements of a business domain or system irrespective of time.

Behavior Diagrams: Diagrams that model the functional or behavioral aspects of a system or business process. These diagrams place less emphasis on detailed interactions and focus more on the overall functionality and flow of a business process or system.

Interaction Diagrams: A subset of behavior diagrams, these diagrams place a heavy emphasis on the interactions between object of a business process or system.

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Shamim posted on Sunday, December 7, 2008 7:38 PM

There are 3 categories of UML diagrams:

Structure Diagrams: These diagrams highlight what things must be in the system being modeled.
Ex. Class diagram, Component Diagram, Composite structure diagram, deployment diagram, Object Diagram and package diagram.

Behavior Diagrams: These diagrams highlight what must happen in the system being modeled.
Ex. Activity Diagram, State Diagram and use case diagram
Interaction Diagram: These diagrams are a subset of Behavior diagrams and highlights the flow of control and data among the things in the system being modeled.
Ex. Communication Diagram, Interaction overview diagram,sequence diagram and timing diagrams.

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