Exemplary and Complete Object Interaction Descriptions

TL;DR

This paper introduces Extended Event Traces (EETs), a graphical notation for describing object interactions in complex systems, emphasizing their use for exemplary and complete behavior descriptions in object-oriented business information systems.

Contribution

It presents a new variant of message sequence diagrams called EETs, detailing their notation, semantics, and application for large, object-oriented systems.

Findings

EETs effectively describe interactions between single and composite objects.

EETs are suitable for large system behavior modeling.

The paper discusses the methodological use of EETs in system analysis.

Abstract

In this paper we present a variant of message sequence diagrams called EETs Extended Event Traces We provide the graphical notation discuss the methodological use of EETs to describe behavior of object oriented business information systems and sketch their semantics Special emphasis is put on the different implications of using EETs for exemplary and complete interaction descriptions. The possibility to describe interactions between single objects as well as composite objects with EETs makes them particularly suitable to describe the behavior of large systems.