Week 4:

Begining analysis (but does not reference the chapter of the same name in the book, really means chapter 5):

The starting point of analysis is is attempting to model an event. An even being an occurrence at a specific time and place that triggers a system process. There are three types of events:

External
- Outside the system
- Initiated by external agent or actor

Temporal
- Occurs as result of reaching a point in time
- based on system deadlines

State
- Something inside system triggers processing need

The rest of the lecture was basically about all the different modelling diagrams contained in the UML. It may become confusing when differentiating them because a lot of them are structured the same way and include the same information. We have already looked at Class diagrams in java and ERD/DSD in database so I’m not too worried, but intend to go back and look over the differences.

My father is a member of a private golf club that has such a system in place, so I’m aware of most of the extra information need to operate. This helped immensely when interviewing the mock client because i could already foresee the answers to the questions i had and was merely clarifying what i already knew.