Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development

Re:Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to sof... by TuringTest on Friday June 16, 2023 @02:08AM (#36352127)

If you're creating diagrams with graphvis, you're just coding on another language. The benefits of diagrams appear when you draw them by hand (or graphically by mouse).

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Re:Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to sof... by radicalbyte on Friday June 16, 2023 @05:22AM (#36353732)

I generate them: initially with my own generator (which is copyright an employer from > 15 years ago), on a later project I found that Doxygen can do do that for you out of the box :-)

For interactive discussion I just use Visual Studio's projection, for databases I use the SQL Server Management Tool ERD projector or pgAdmin if I'm using Postgres.

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Re:Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to sof... by TuringTest on Saturday June 17, 2023 @04:02AM (#36368253)

The point is that you're generating diagrams from code that's already been written, you're not modelling, do you? ;-)

Those are a different kind of diagram than the one you create from scratch to decide what goes in the program.

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