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Interaction overview diagram - Unified Modeling Language (UML) Tutorial
From the course: Software Design: Modeling with UML
Interaction overview diagram
- [Instructor] Interaction overview diagrams help us model an overview of control flow. It is a specialized form of activity diagram that shows some interaction inside an action node using one of the interaction diagrams, that is, a sequence diagram or a communication diagram. This diagram was introduced in UML 2 and has yet to acquire wide use and popularity. The notations for these diagrams are almost same as the notations for an activity diagram such as start and stop, decision and merge, for and join, and the directional flow of arrows. The key difference is in the action node itself. The action node is replaced by a combination of three notations. Frame and a node of type interaction or interaction use. Frames are rectangles with a header at the top left indicating something about what action it represents. The example shown here models the activity in which a candidate is applying for something, say, a new bank account…
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