Representation Options | UML Representation: Actor
The actor may have the following properties:
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Name: The name of the actor.
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Brief Description: A brief description of the actor's sphere of responsibility and
what the actor needs the system for.
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Characteristics: For human actors: The physical environment of the actor, the number
of users the actor represents, the actor's level of domain knowledge, the actor's level of computer
experience, other applications the actor is using, and other general characteristics such as gender,
age, cultural background, and so on.
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Relationships: The relationships, such as actor-generalizations, and
communicates-associations in which the actor participates.
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Diagrams: Any diagrams local to the actor, such as use-case diagrams depicting the
actor's communicates-associations with use cases.
Decide which properties to use and how to use them. In particular, you need to decide at which level of
detail the "Characteristics" property needs to be described.
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