Finally – Sequence Diagrams without the pain
I love UML sequence diagrams! It’s a beautiful visual way of understanding how a series of method invocations work, what the interactions between them are, and generally a kick-ass tool for good understanding of whats going on.
I have sequence diagrams! They are slow to draw, difficult to modify, and a big drag on a project that has to maintain an up to date set of them.
Introducing WebSequenceDiagrams.com. These guys have come up with a really cool way of turning almost natural english like:
TwitClient -> Twitter: Post status "Testing cool tool" Twitter --> TwitClient: Success Twitter -> Notification: New Tweet
into diagrams like:
TwitClient -> Twitter: Post status "Testing cool tool" Twitter --> TwitClient: Success Twitter -> Notification: New Tweet
Now I once again love sequence diagrams.
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Comments to “Finally – Sequence Diagrams without the pain”
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Laurie says:
Yes, but this syntax is so amazingly easy to work with, unlike the graphviz one, which made me crawl under my duvet and cry – i never did figure out how to run dot, or why I would want to :D
The syntax reminds me of http://www.graphviz.org/ (which is capable of similar stuff)