BCS Certificate in Systems Modelling Using UML

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Justify the need for IT systems modelling and modelling standards
• Provide the rationale for selected approach of modelling
• Explain the role of models for analysis against business objectives and system requirements
• State the approach adopted for a systems development lifecycle
• Identify the role plated by models within the systems development lifecycle
• Explain why it is important to model IT system requirements from different perspectives
• Discuss how the models and their content/outcomes interact with one another
• Highlight the importance of validating and verifying the models
• Explain unified process in the context of software development activities
• Discuss mapping of unified process on to iterative workflows in software development
• Elaborate on the importance of abstraction when modelling software systems
• Describe the origin of UML and its evolution into the full notation set of diagrams
• State how the static diagrams in UML help in modelling the structure of system’s objects
• State how the dynamic diagrams in UML help in modelling the behaviours of system’s objects
• Distinguish between the process elements and sequencing events in UML models
• Explain how models act as bridge between the requirements and development
• Define package and explain its purpose and usage in UML diagrams
• Illustrate different types of relationships and their notations as per UML
  • Association
  • Aggregation
  • Composition
  • Generalisation
  • Realisation
  • Dependency
• Describe how use case diagrams help in modelling user requirements
• Define elements in a use case diagram- system boundary, use case, actor and relationships
• Explain when to use ‘extends’ and ‘includes/uses’ relationships between use cases
• Develop models of system functionality as use case diagrams
• Support use case models with specifying detailed use case descriptions
• State the content and structure of a use case specification template
• Define activity diagram and describe its purpose and applications
• Explain the notation and elements in an activity diagram
• Define swimlanes and explain their importance (as opposed to using a flow chart)
• Describe how activity diagrams help in depicting dynamic behaviours of systems’ objects
• Demonstrate the steps in creating an activity diagram using the relevant notations
• Define class diagram and describe its purpose and applications
• Explain the notation and elements in a class diagram
• Describe how class diagrams help in depicting the static structure of an application
• Highlight the use of class diagram as a powerful tool in modelling object oriented systems
• Develop class diagram using a collection of classes, interfaces, associations, collaborations, and constraints
• Explain use of associations and different types i.e., generalisation, inheritence and abstraction
• State benefits of class diagrams in forward engineering and reverse engineering of the models
• Develop models of system data as object models from instances of classes
• Explain the notation and elements in an object diagram
• Describe how object diagram depicts static structure of an application’s objects as a snapshot at one time
• Highlight the use of object diagram as a powerful tool in modelling object oriented systems
• Define attributes and operations in a data model
• Discuss the different ways to show the visibility of operations viz., private, protected and public
• Define communication diagram and describe its purpose and applications
• Explain the notation and elements in a communication diagram
• Illustrate the use of a sequence diagram as a means to realise a use case
• Specify the various types of class/object types used in a communication diagram
  • Boundary class/object
  • Control class/object
  • Entity class/object
• Demonstrate a communication diagram as an extension of view of participating classes (VOPC)
• Develop a communication diagram using boundary, entity, control objects, their interactions and messages
• Define sequence diagram and describe its purpose and applications
• Explain the notation and elements in a sequence diagram
• Highlight the use of sequence diagram to show the interactions between among different objects
• Develop a sequence diagram using x and y-axes, timeline, objects and their lifelines, activations, messages
• Produce dynamic models as sequence diagrams showing the realisation of a use case
• Explain the role of business rules and constrains in class diagrams and data models
• List the different possibilities and permutations of multiplicities between two classes/entities
• Resolve many-to-many association multiplicity between two entities in a data model
• Define state chart diagram and describe its purpose and applications
• Explain the notation and elements in a state transition diagram
• Describe how state chart diagrams depict the transition of states of an object in a system
• Develop a state transition diagram using different elements eg., start, state, transition, event, activity, end state
• Define component diagram and describe its purpose and applications
• Explain the notation and elements in a component diagram
• Illustrate the use of a component diagram as a special kind of a UML diagram
• Develop a component diagram using the constructs eg., components, files, libraries, artefacts and relationships
• Define deployment diagram and describe its purpose and applications
• Explain the notation and elements in a deployment diagram
• Illustrate the use of a deployment diagram to depict the runtime processing and hardware topology etc.
• Develop a deployment diagram using the constructs eg., nodes and relationships among nodes
• Evaluate alignment of selected system models against business objectives and system requirements
• Demonstrate how the selected UML models/diagrams inter-relate with each other
• Describe how the system models of analysis feed into the design and development of systems