UML Modeling Tools
CSE 470 – Software Engineering
Fall 1999
J. Brown
Objectives
• Introduce Dome to draw:
– Class Diagrams
– State Diagrams
– Use Case Diagrams
• Demonstrate some of the less intuitive features
of Dome.
• Introduce Xfig to draw Sequence Diagrams.
• Demonstrate how to convert diagrams to
Postscript from Dome and Xfig.
Starting Dome
Creating a New Model
Use Case Tool
Use Case Diagram
• Start with the
System
Boundary
• Use Property
Button to
Change
Properties of
Diagram
Components,
e.g. Component
Name
Class Diagram Tool
Class Diagram
• Insert model
components, then
edit with the
‘Properties’ button.
• All associations
must be drawn
between two
classes.
• Change association
multiplicities by the
‘Properties’ button.
State Diagram Tool
State Diagram
• States can be nested.
• Concurrent states:
– Their parent must be
a ‘Concurrent’.
– Partition the parent
with ‘Concurrent
Partitions.’
– Place states within
concurrent partitions.
• Edit transition and
state properties by
the ‘Properties’
button.
Running Dome
• Open an Xterm window.
• At the prompt, type ‘~cse470/bin/dome’.
• You may want to add the following alias to
your .aliases file to shorten the command
you need to type.
– alias dome ‘~cse470/bin/dome’
Saving Files
• Create a directory for each project and save
models in that directory.
• Develop some convention for model files so
that you can easily identify which file is
associated with which model, e.g. add a -uc
to the end of the file name for the Use Case
Diagram or add an extension to the name
Generating Postscript
• To generate a postscript file:
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Select Print… under the File menu.
Check the ‘Print to File’ box.
Select ‘Encapsulated Postscript’ as the Format.
Modify the file name, if desired, then press
‘OK’.
Sequence Diagrams
• Dome doesn’t support sequence diagram drawing.
• For sequence diagrams, I recommend using ‘Xfig’.
Xfig is a UNIX-based, generic drawing tool that
can also generate Postscript files.
• To use Xfig, open an Xterm window.
• At the prompt, type ‘xfig’.
• Standard Xfig files have .fig extensions.
• To generate a postscript file in Xfig:
– Select the ‘Export...’ button at the top of the screen.
– Set ‘Language’ to ‘Postscript’, then hit ‘Export’.
Xfig Example