Design
- Collect Requirements and Define System Boundaries
- Create Context Diagram (Level 1)
- Create Container Diagram (Level 2)
- Create Component Diagram (Level 3)
- Create Code Diagram (Level 4)
- Create Dynamic Diagram (Level 5)
- Create Deployment Diagram (Level 6)
- Context diagram — provides a high-level overview of the system and its boundaries, shows the system in the context of users and other systems, focuses on system boundaries and external interactions.
- Container diagram — displays the main high-level containers of the system (services, microservices, databases) and interactions between them, shows technology stacks and major data flows.
- Component diagram — delves into one of the containers, showing its components, their dependencies, and interactions, describes functional responsibilities.
- Code/classes diagram — displays the code structure within one of the components, shows classes, interfaces, and their relationships.
- Dynamic diagram (sequence diagram) — shows object interactions in a specific temporal order, focuses on the sequence of messages between objects.
- Deployment diagram — illustrates the physical placement of software artifacts on deployment nodes, displays infrastructure and connections between components.
- System Landscape — provides an overview of the entire system landscape, shows interactions between different systems in the environment, includes environment components and dependencies.