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Data Flow Diagram (DFD) provides a visual representation of the ow of information (i.e. data) within a system. By drawing a Data Flow Diagram, you can tell the information provided by and delivered to someone who takes part in system processes, the information needed in order to complete the processes and the information needed to be stored and accessed. This article describes and explain Data Flow Diagram (DFD) by using a food ordering system as an example.
The Food Ordering System Example Context DFD The gure below shows a context Data Flow Diagram that is drawn for a Food Ordering System. It contains a process (shape) that represents the system to model, in this case, the "Food Ordering System ". ". It also shows the participants who wil l interact with the system, called the external entities. In this example, Supplier , Kitchen , Manager and and Customer are are the entities who wil l interact with the system. In between the process and the external entities, there are data ow (connectors) that indicate the existence of information exchange between the entities and the system.
Context DFD is the entrance of a data ow model. It contains one and only one process and does not show any data store.
Level 1 DFD The gure below shows the level 1 DFD, which is the decomposition (i.e. break down) of the Food Ordering System process process shown in the context DFD. Read through the diagram and then we will introduce some of the key concepts based on this diagram.
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The Food Order System Data Flow Diagram example contains three processes, four external entities and two data stores. Based on the diagram, we know that a Customer can place an Order . The Order Food process receives the Order , forwards it to the Kitchen , store it in the Order data store, and store the updated Inventory details in the Inventory data store. The process also deliver a Bill to the Customer . Manager can receive Reports through the Generate Reports process, which takes Inventory details and Orders as input from the Inventory and Order data store respectively. Manager can also initiate the Order Inventory process by providing Inventory order . The process forwards the Inventory order to the Supplier
and stores the updated Inventory details in the Inventory data store.
Data Flow Diagram Tips and Cautions Don't overdrawn In a Data Flow Diagram, we focus on the in teractions between the system and external parties, rather than the internal communications among interfaces. Therefore, data ows between interfaces and the data stores used are considered to be out of scope and should not be shown in the diagram.
Don't mix up data ow and process ow Some designers may feel uncomfortable when seeing a connector connecting from a data store to a process, without seeing the step of data request being shown on the diagram somehow. Some of them will try to represent a request by adding a connector between a process and a data store, labeling it "a request" or "request for something", which is wrong. Keep in mind that Data Flow Diagram was designed for representing the exchange of information. Connectors in a Data Flow Diagram are for representing data, not for representing process ow, step or anything else. When we label a data ow that ends at a data store "a request", this literally means we are passing a request as data into a data store. Although this may be the case in implementation level as some of the DBMS do support the use of functions, which intake some values as parameters and return a result, in Data Flow Diagram, we tend to treat data store as a sole data holder that does not possess any processing capability. If you want to model the system ow or process ow, use UML Activity Diagram or BPMN Business Process Diagram instead. If you want to model the internal structure of data store, use Entity Relationship Diagram.
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Data Flow Diagram with Examples - Food Ordering System you meant by a label. In the diagram presented under this tutorial, both the shapes and connectors are labelled. Could you provide more details?
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