You can run traceability and impact analysis queries on a UML diagram
to explore dependency relationships one level at a time.
About this task
To visualize dependency relationships in a diagram:
Procedure
- In the Project Explorer view,
select an element to analyze and drag it into a diagram.
- To visualize dependency relationships in a diagram, in the Palette,
click the Explore tab; then expand the Traceability and Impact
Analysis sections and complete one of the following steps:
- To visualize clients from the next direct level of abstraction, click Clients.
- To visualize suppliers from the next direct level of abstraction,
click Suppliers.
- To visualize specifications from the next direct level of abstraction,
click Specifications.
- To visualize implementations from the next direct level of abstraction,
click Implementations.
- In the diagram, click the element that you had visualized.
Dependency relationships, if any exist, are visualized in a diagram.