Equally popular: diagrams

Another popular way of representing the processing logic is through diagrams. Here is the dunning example from the previous chapter presented as a diagram:

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Conclusion

The basic characteristics for evaluating the description are somewhat easier to see than in a text, but…​

  • Is it a simple or rather a difficult, complex task?

  • How many conditions and actions are included?
    It is not enough to count the diamonds and rectangles; you also have to read all the text to determine that certain conditions and actions occur multiple times in different branches of the diagram.

  • How many cases or use cases are included?
    From the emergence of the desire for colored pencils, it can easily be deduced that diagrams are also only suitable to a limited extent for describing technical processes.

  • Is the description complete?

  • Are there any contradictions?

  • Are there any redundancies?