Analyst

UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. It is the industry standard language for constructing, visualizing and documenting the different components within a system.

This is a flow that accounts for an unexpected or unusual result within the application process. The exception will be handled according to its designed flow.

There are three types of diagrams:

☛ Use case diagram

☛ Activity diagram

☛ Collaboration diagram

The use case model requires a use case diagram. It describes the business environment. It is primary goal is to show the series of events and actions within any given process that will be performed by an actor.

The flow chart gives a clear graphical representation of an implemented process. This makes the system simple to understand for all persons involved in the project.

This is the flow that will come into action, when there is a failure in the use case system where the expected results have not come to fruition.

A collaboration diagram, also called a communication diagram or interaction diagram is an illustration of the relationships and interactions among software objects in the Unified Modeling Language. The concept is more than a decade old although it has been refined as modeling paradigms have evolved.

The activity diagram is important because it gives an outline of the work flow within the business as well as the activities and action completed.

For instance with a company, there is likely to be more than one department. In such a case each department, will have different access levels to the system.

So if there is a Medical, HR and Accounts team they will only have access to screens that relate to each. The activity diagram will highlight the differences within the departments which will be very helpful for developers when they are designing and coding.

A few types of analysts are given below:

☛ Accounting analyst

☛ Business analyst

☛ Financial analyst

☛ Industry analyst

☛ Intelligence analyst

☛ Marketing analyst

☛ Medical analyst

☛ Public analyst

☛ Public policy analyst

☛ Systems analyst

Business analyst:

Business analyst must understand IT and also has to understand the stakeholders needs.

Systems analyst:

A system analyst has the ability to look at a program or utility and see the code. They can go in and pinpoint where changes need to be made.

The general character of a business analyst are as follows:

☛ He/she is a visionary and forward thinker, a person that is always thinking outside the box.

☛ Always up to date with the latest technological advances, especially when it involves what programs should be utilized.

☛ The ability to determine needs at the right time. Which means the company in question is always at the cutting edge in contrast to their corporate competitors.

Quality analysts may play key roles in establishing their organization's quality standards. They often use industry benchmarks and experience to recommend quality-related practices that can be used throughout the organization. Quality improvement initiatives often take advantage of the analyst's expertise to ensure programs are successful.

A quality analyst helps ensure that an organization's products or services meet its quality standards. The analyst may work in industries such as software development, manufacturing or customer service. Although the specifics of a job description for this position will differ depending on the industry and organization, many duties of the position are conceptually similar. This position frequently requires higher education, strong analytic skills and attention to detail.

Quality analyst jobs focus on developing plans to ensure quality requirements are met. In manufacturing, this may involve determining the number of samples to take per lot, type of tests to be performed and at which points in the process sampling and testing should occur. In software development, the analyst will likely develop plans and write test cases to ensure computer applications meet their requirements. Those who work in customer service organizations may establish plans to audit and survey a sample of customer service transactions.

All quality analysts work with people. Analyzing the production process means analyzing the people working on production, as well as the technology involved. Quality analysts are able to interact effectively with employees at all levels of the production process. They also report to department and company managers and often personally meet clients or suppliers.

Quality analysts report to management and are able to make effective presentations of the situations or the problems and the possible ways to fix problems.

They also interact with all levels of employees, clients and suppliers and their written and verbal skills must be first rate to be effective.

Quality analysts develop ways to test a specific company's production process. They can also train other company personnel and any other quality inspectors to use this testing method.

There are some distinct tools that are used for conveying his plans to the stakeholders and/or end user. These are in diagrams form called UML, which stands for Unified Modeling Language.

There are a range of 7 different UML diagrams, an Analyst will be trained to use, these are as follows:

☛ Use Case Diagrams

☛ Interaction Diagrams

☛ Activity Diagrams

☛ Class Diagrams

☛ Sequence Diagrams

☛ Component Diagrams

☛ Deployment Diagrams

A software quality analyst is responsible for applying the principles and practices of software quality assurance throughout the software development life cycle. Though often referred to as quality assurance, software testing is considered to be only one part of the larger process of reducing errors. Testing is used to detect errors in a product, software quality assurance also fixes the processes that resulted in those errors.