Write Great Code, Volume 3

5UML ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS

UML activity diagrams, traditionally known as flowcharts, illustrate the workflow between different components of a system. Flowcharts were prevalent in the early days of software development and were still used in software design just before the rise of object-oriented programming (OOP). Although the UML object-oriented notation supersedes old-fashioned flowcharting to a large extent, OOP still relies on small methods, functions, and procedures to implement the low-level, nitty-gritty details, and flowcharting is useful for describing control flow in those cases. Hence, UML’s designers created activity diagrams as an updated ...