State Transition and Action Data Flow Diagrams
Shlaer-Mellor's state transition diagram describes an object's life cycle. It is similar to the
statechart diagram used in the
Unified Modeling Language (UML). A Shlaer-Mellor activity
data flow diagram illustrates the processing associated with state diagrams.
State Transition Diagram Notations
States
Use boxes to represent states and use arcs to represent transitions between states.
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Activity Data Flow Diagram Notations
Process
A process is something that manipulates data. Draw a process using an oval.
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Data Flow
Illustrate data flow or control flow between processes with arcs.
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Data Store
Data stores represent the logical component of the system where information is stored.
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