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System Analysis and Design

System Analysis Activities
Modelling- Class Diagram

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Class Modelling
• Class: is a category or classification used to describe a collection of objects. Each
object belongs to a class.
• Example, students Mary, Joe, and Maria belong to the class Student.
• Classes that describe things in the problem domain are called domain classes.
• Domain classes have attributes and associations. Multiplicity applies among
classes.

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Class Diagram
• Class Diagram: a diagram consisting of classes (i.e., sets of objects) and
associations among the classes.
• On a class diagram, rectangles represent classes, and the lines connecting the
rectangles show the associations among classes.

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Domain Model Class Diagram Notation

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Class Diagram For a Bank

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Generalization/Specialization Relationships
• Generalization/specialization relationships are based on the idea that
people classify things in terms of similarities and differences.
• A type of hierarchical relationship in which subordinate classes are subsets of
objects of the superior classes; an inheritance hierarchy.
• Super class the superior or more general class in a generalization /
specialization relationship.
• Subclass the subordinate or more specialized class in a generalization/
specialization relationship
• Inheritance the concept that specialization classes inherit the attributes of the
generalization class

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Generalization/specialization relationships
for motor vehicles

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Generalization/specialization relationships
(inheritance) for sales

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