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How To Construct A Class Diagram in Rational Rose SE

The document provides instructions for constructing a class diagram in Rational Rose SE: 1) Create a new class diagram using the same procedure as a use case diagram. This will provide a class diagram tool palette. 2) Click the class icon and then click in the diagram to add classes. Classes have three compartments for name, attributes, and operations which should initially be suppressed. 3) Add class names and documentation by right clicking and selecting "specification". 4) Repeat to add all classes and then use the association icon to link classes, specifying the multiplicity at each end.

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How To Construct A Class Diagram in Rational Rose SE

The document provides instructions for constructing a class diagram in Rational Rose SE: 1) Create a new class diagram using the same procedure as a use case diagram. This will provide a class diagram tool palette. 2) Click the class icon and then click in the diagram to add classes. Classes have three compartments for name, attributes, and operations which should initially be suppressed. 3) Add class names and documentation by right clicking and selecting "specification". 4) Repeat to add all classes and then use the association icon to link classes, specifying the multiplicity at each end.

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How to construct a Class diagram in Rational Rose SE

As with the use case diagram, for


simple systems you can use the
‘Main’ diagram. In more complex
systems you may have to create
more than one diagram. To to
create a new class diagram use the
same procedure described in the
‘Creating a Use Case Diagram’
tutorial. Select ‘Browse’, select
‘class diagram’ and <new>. Once
in the class diagram you should
see a tool palette like
this.

We will illustrate the construction of figure


2.2 from the textbook. First Click on the
class
icon from the tool palette and then click
within your diagram. You should see a box
with three compartments. The top
compartment contains the class name, the
next compartment will contain the class
attributes and the final compartment will
contain the class operations.
In the initial stages of analysis we are not interested in the details of a
class, we will often add and remove classes as we develop our
understanding of the application domain. It is only at a later stages when
the class structure stabilizes, that we begin to include attributes and
operations. After this we will also begin to add more details, e.g. the type
of an attribute, whether an attribute is private or public.
At this stage you should right click suppress the attribute and operation
information. After doing this click on specification, then add the class
name and any documentation you think appropriate.

SimpleWatch

PushButton Time
Display Battery

Repeat the procedure just described


to add the other classes. Once you
have done this select the
association icon and add the
associations between the classes.
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1
1
*
1
PushButton Time
Display Battery

Right clicking at each end of the


association will bring up a menu in
which you can enter the multiplicity
of the association. Enter 1, or ‘one or
more’ (as in the case of the buttons
and batteries). You have now
completed the diagram.

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