Using Procedure Synthesis

During business system design you must consider how the user will use the generated system. For online systems, you use Procedure Synthesis to determine how the user interacts with screens that present the generated software.

When you conduct Procedure Synthesis, you can perform the following tasks:

Select the stereotype
Select stereotype options
Synthesize flows
Resynthesize processes

The remainder of this chapter discusses these topics.

When you select the stereotype you can also select options that influence both procedure definition and dialog design. For example, you can assign commands when you implement action blocks. Command is a special attribute. It allows you to specify the means for users to influence procedure execution. In an online system, you can place a command field on a screen. At execution time, the user can enter a value into the command field to direct execution of the procedure. For example, consider a procedure called Maintain Customer that implements elementary processes called Add Customer, Change Customer, and Delete Customer. If you specify the command to be used for execution, the user can select among the three processes by placing the appropriate value in the command field. During Procedure Synthesis you can set the command in a Procedure Action Diagram that executes the required action block.