Diagramming with UML

- To determine the required information…for the employee class, you need to conduct interviews…and have discussions with the end user.…For our example, we want to create…an employee class for a payroll program.…Therefore, we've already determined…that we will need the following pieces of data.…The employee first name, last name,…phone number, address, employee ID,…department, and title.…Based on the information, here is the start…of our UML diagram to model our employee class.…

As you can see, the top rectangle…contains the name of the class, Employee.…The next rectangle contains…the instance data about the employee.…These values refer to the state of the employee.…The last rectangle is the behaviors, or the methods…that we'll need to be able to access employee information.…We have a constructor, Employee,…which is used to instantiate our employees.…As well as some get methods.…As you can see, this model is not complete…since we still need to add set methods…for each piece of data to go along with the get methods.…