Using edit, topic, and browse diagrams to model a system

When you analyze or design a system, you can use different types of diagrams to organize and capture new ideas, document and communicate these ideas, or understand an existing system. This tutorial introduces the edit, topic, and browse diagram types and demonstrates how to use them to design, document, and explore elements in a UML model file.

Learning objectives

This tutorial shows you how to use different types of diagrams to design, document, and explore a system in a UML model file. Specifically, this tutorial shows you how to do the following things:

  • Use edit diagrams to organize and capture ideas
  • Use topic diagrams to automate documentation
  • Use browse diagrams to discover and understand a model

This tutorial plays in a video format, which you can operate through playback controls. You can pause, advance, or reverse the tutorial at any time by using the control bar.

Time:5 minutes and 29 seconds    5 minutes and 29 seconds
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