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Ask HN: Is anyone using UML in their work?
I'm very curious to know about the real-life applicability of UML.
All examples I have seen so far are the shape-rectangle-circle kind of examples. Besides, I have been browsing around open source projects a lot recently and none of them had a design document or similar.
- bradwood 4y agoSequence diagrams, in particular, yes. I do these with PlantUML in Gitlab Issues (which has in-built support for PlantUML)
- khaled_ismaeel 4y agoCan you provide some links?
- bradwood 4y agoIf you google `PlantUML Gitlab` you should find some blog posts and docs, but if you are don't fancy reading this, try pasting this into a Gitlab Issue body ```plantuml Alice -> Bob: Authentication Request Bob --> Alice: Authentication Response Alice -> Bob: Another authentication Request Alice <-- Bob: Another authentication Response ``` I believe Github has similar support also. See this for a whole lot more about PlantUML: https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram
- khaled_ismaeel 4y agoI meant links to instances where you used UML diagrams in an active issue. I'm more interested in seeing how people use it rather than how to make it.
- bradwood 4y agoSorry, it's a private gitlab instance.