PowerDesigner supports all the objects necessary to build use case diagrams.
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Object |
Tool |
Symbol |
Description |
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Actor |
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Used to represent an external person, process or something interacting with a system, sub-system or class. See Actors (OOM). |
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Use case |
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Defines a piece of coherent behavior in a system, without revealing its internal structure. See Use Cases (OOM). |
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Association |
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Communication path between an actor and a use case that it participates in. See Use Case Associations (OOM). |
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Generalization |
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A link between a general use case and a more specific use case that inherits from it and add features to it. See Generalizations (OOM). |
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Dependency |
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Relationship between two modeling elements, in which a change to one element will affect the other element. See Dependencies (OOM). |