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 Duration 21 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to System Modelling

  • Defining a system model
  • The four core principles of system modelling
  • Comparing model-centric and document-centric approaches
  • An overview of SysML
  • The connection between SysML and UML
  • The four core principles of SysML

Common and Crosscutting Constructs

  • Profiles, stereotypes, and tags
  • Diagram frames
  • Comments
  • Allocations

Package Diagrams

  • Understanding packages
  • Organizing the model through packages
  • Package containment
  • Package dependencies
  • Visualizing model structure
  • Views and viewpoints

Requirement Diagrams

  • Defining requirements
  • Modelling atomic requirements
  • Requirement traceability

Use Case Diagrams

  • Viewing the system as a black box
  • Defining the system boundary with actors
  • Use cases as system services
  • Elements behind the use case diagram
  • Use case structure · Nominal and alternative scenarios
  • Managing shared behavior
  • Extended and specialized behavior

Activity Diagrams

  • Modelling flow-based logic
  • Distinguishing between actions and activities
  • Grasping token flow
  • Control flow versus object flow
  • Modeling decisions · Modeling concurrency
  • Swimlanes and responsibility

Block Definition Diagrams

  • Understanding blocks
  • Block features
  • Modelling types
  • Modelling system hierarchy
  • Generalizing system elements

Internal Block Diagrams

  • Revisiting parts
  • Ports with Flow Properties
  • Standard ports and interfaces
  • Proxy ports and interface blocks
  • Full ports

Parametric Diagrams

  • Understanding constraint blocks
  • Constraining system properties

Sequence Diagrams

  • Interaction-based behavior
  • Simple sequences
  • Synchronous versus asynchronous interactions
  • Fragment nodes
  • Interaction use nodes

State Machine Diagrams

  • States and their syntax
  • Transitions between states
  • Pseudo state notation (initial, decision, history, end)
  • Decomposing states
  • Modelling concurrent states

System Modelling Resources and Further Reading

  • Suggested web resources
  • Recommended literature

Requirements

While previous hands-on experience with system modelling is not mandatory for this course, participants are expected to have a strong command of traditional 'document-centric' systems engineering practices.

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