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SWEN 5135 Configuration Management

Component Diagram

A component diagram shows a collection of declarative (static) model elements, such as components, and implementation subsystems, and their relationships.
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Component diagrams show the static structure of the implementation model. A component diagram is presented as a collection of (static) declarative model elements, such as components, subsystems, and their relationships, connected as a graph to each other. Component diagrams can be organized into, and owned by implementation subsystems, which show only what is relevant within a particular implementation subsystem.

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The following structures are suitable for illustration in component diagrams.

  • Implementation subsystems and their import dependencies.
  • The implementation subsystems organized in layers.
  • Components (source code files) and their compilation dependencies.
  • Components (applications) and their run-time dependencies.
  • Important structure of components, for example to illustrate a typical use of a component.


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