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• How to use PowerDesigner Business Process, UML
  and Data models in application analysis and
  design?
• Some software engineer processes are too complex
  (RUP, CMM, )
• Each company should carefully select a process
  and adapt it to its own needs based on
• Type of application
• Size of team

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A Typical Process for Developing New Application
with PowerDesigner
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Example of How to Use UML for a New Application

• Define Use Case Diagram
• Identify classes
• Define Collaboration Diagram and/or Sequence
  Diagram
• Identify classes and operations
• Design Class Diagram
• Generate a report and use the report as a
  specification
• Generate a Physical Data Model with O/R mapping
• Optimize the PDM
• Generate the Database
• Define classes implementation in Class Diagram
• Generate the code and O/R mapping
• Use an IDE to finish the implementation, compile
  and test
• Reverse engineer the code to update the UML model

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Example of How to Use UML for an Existing
Application

• Reverse engineer existing code to create a Class
  Diagram
• Reverse engineer existing database to create a
  PDM
• Understand the existing applications logic
• Define Use Case Diagram
• Define Collaboration Diagram and/or Sequence
  Diagram
• Improve Class Diagram
• Generate a report and use the report as a
  specification
• Modify the Database
• Improve classes implementation
• Generate the code and O/R mapping
• Use an IDE to finish the implementation, compile
  and test
• Reverse engineer the code to update the UML model