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Specialisations in use case diagrams


I am working on a use case diagram and I was wondering if this is a correct use of a Specialized use case. Here I have Create which has 3 different specialisations. What I am trying to demonstrate here is that the user can create a Team, Project or a Board. I feel this might not be the correct use of specialisation. Would it make more sense to split these into "Create Team", "Create project" etc...?

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Solution

  • In UML a use case is a classifier and can be specialized. From a notation point of view this is correct. However, you shoud reconsider the wording of the names, since the specialized use case may be used or reused independently of their generalization.

    What about: Create item, Create project, Create team, Create board ?