Chapter 24: Ten Diagrams for Quick Development

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Overview

In This Chapter

• Choosing when to use a specific UML diagram

• Recognizing what each diagram is good for during development

• Understanding what each diagram shows

This book provides you with a basic reference to the Unified Modeling Language—but you also have to know why particular diagrams are important, when to use them, and what each diagram can do for you. This chapter gives you a tour of our ten favorite ways of using the basic UML diagrams—as well as a few tips along the way. You will find more detailed examples of the basic UML diagrams and how we use them throughout the rest of the book.

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