Chapter 14.Creating Software Development Drawings

In This Chapter

Creating UML Drawings

Creating Program Structure Drawings

Creating Database Model Drawings

Creating Data Flow Model Drawings

Modeling the User Interface

Creating Conceptual Websites

Creating Website Maps

Creating UML Drawings

As you might expect, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) support in Visio is strong. There are several stencils that have to do with UML, and you can find them in the Software and Database template category’s UML Model Diagram template:

  • UML Activity
  • UML Collaboration
  • UML Component
  • UML Deployment
  • UML Sequence
  • UML Statechart
  • UML Static Structure
  • UML Use Case

We’ll take a look at the UML support in Visio by creating a state machine drawing first.

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