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30 Cards in this Set
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Elementary business processes (EBPs)
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tasks that are performed by one person in one place, in response to a business event, that add measurable business value and leave the system and its data in a consistent state
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Event
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an occurrence at a specific time and place that can be described and is worth remembering
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Event decomposition
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a technique analysts use to identify use cases by first focusing on the events a system must respond to and then looking at how a system responds
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External event
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an event that occurs outside the system, usually initiated by an external agent or actor
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Temporal event
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an event that occurs as a result of reaching a point in time
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State event
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an event that occurs when something happens inside the system that triggers the need for processing
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System controls
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checks or safety procedures put in place to protect the integrity of the system
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Perfect technology assumption
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the assumption that events should be included during early iterations only if the system would be required to respond under perfect conditions
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Event table
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a catalog of use cases that lists events in rows and key pieces of information about each event in columns
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Trigger
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a signal that tells the system that an event has occurred, either the arrival of data needing processing or a point in time
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Source
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an external agent that supplies data to the system
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Response
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an output, produced by the system, that goes to a destination
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Destination
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an external agent that receives data from the system
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Binary association
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a relationship between two different types of things, such as a customer and an order
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Unary (recursive) association
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a relationship between two things of the same type, such as one person being married to another person
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Ternary association
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a relationship among three different types of things
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n-ary association
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a relationship among n (any number of) different types of things
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Identifier (key)
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an attribute that uniquely identifies a thing
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Compound attribute
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an attribute that contains a collection of related attributes
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Domain model class diagram
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a UML class diagram that shows the things that are important in the users' work- problem domain classes, their associations, and their attributes
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Association class
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a class that represents a many-to-many relationship between two other classes
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Whole-part hierarchies
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hierarchies that structure classes according to their associated components
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Aggregation
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whole-part relationship between an object and its parts in which the parts can exist separately
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Composition
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whole-part relationship in which the parts cannot be dissociated from object
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Abstract class
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a class that cannot be instantiated (no objects can be created), existing only to allow subclasses to inherit its attributes, methods, and associations
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Concrete class
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a class that can be instantiated (objects can be created)
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Location diagram
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a diagram or map that indentifies all of the processing locations of a system
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Use case-location matrix
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a table that describes the relationship among use cases and the location in which they are performed
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Use case-domain class matrix
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a table that shows which use case requires access to each domain class
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CRUD
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acronym of create, read, update, and delete
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