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Harry
Harry

Reputation: 505

Can flow chart be a use case model?

Could you please let me know whether flow chart can be consider for use case modelling? As far as I know it just represents a flow of events and do not have any actors, so cannot be considered for modelling.

Can some some experts confirm this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 319

Answers (1)

qwerty_so
qwerty_so

Reputation: 36295

Flow charts are the ancestors of activity diagrams and as such very rudimentary. You can use flow charts along with use case modeling, but it is not a good idea. First you will limit yourself in the language (think of a native speaker vs. a foreigner that knows only a little vocabulary). Second is that activity diagrams are matured to a standard within UML. So you can expect more people to be able to read and understand them correctly. And last: activity diagrams are the basis for BPMN which is going to be the next step after use cases (it brings a whole set of new standardized language elements which allows expression of what is in and behind a use case).

And yes, your basic assumption is correct: no relation to actors. So you'd need to find ways to express that outside the flow chart.

See also Wikipedia.

Upvotes: 3

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