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What is an Activity Diagram and what is its purpose?
Question: What is an Activity Diagram and what is its purpose?

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Posted by: cadams5
Categories: Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Unified Modeling Language (UML)


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An Activity Diagram is a behavioral diagram that shows the flow or sequence of activities through a system.  The terms activity diagram and process flow are often used interchangeably.  However, the term activity diagram is typically more restrictive as it refers to one of thirteen standard Unified Model Language (UML) diagrams.  Activity Diagrams are one of the most commonly used diagrams since its notation and origin are based on the widely known flowchart notation.

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By Penguin19 @ Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:48 PM
Activity diagram is mainly used to show parallel processing. It contains a Fork and a Join and a Branch and a Merge. The Fork represents parallel processing and the Join signifies the end of the parallel processing. Branch is used for a guard or a decision point in other words. It is like an if/else. Every Branch corresponds to a Merge which signifies linear processing from that point on.

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