uml drawing tools

I love this awesome tool web sequence diagrams for creating sequence diagrams
was introduced to me by a colleague about 6 months ago and loved it within an hour
so easy to create and edit diagrams, just type in text and see the diagram appear, like magic!
fast enough to use in design collaborations with colleagues
if you need examples, then click examples on left and it will add that text

yuml.me looks very useful too, especially for diagrams other than sequence diagrams
their use case drawing tool seems feature rich likewise for class view (inheritence, cardinality etc.)


I've used gliffy.com quite a bit but I prefer web sequence diagrams because faster, besides gliffy are beginning to charge now


plantuml looks rich and comes recommended by an eclipse user. I have not tried myself and it does require an install.


Thankfully theres other good free ones out there.
I used TogetherJ many moons ago and it looks like thats now provided by Borland (they still around?) and I also used RationalRose before that (but then IBM bought it/them :-( )


UML seems to have a little bad rep in recent years although I think thats fading some. Certainly I've seen cases of people going waaay overboard and the creation of diagrams became a big task. Crazy when often times people did not know if they were working on the right thing or not. Thankfully Agile knocked sense into us all.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

deep dive into Material UI TextField built by mui

Image
The Material Design system is a design system used to create consistent digital experiences across platforms such as android, web and ios. Includes: a color system a typography system a shape system a grid system it addresses motion and lots more Also includes Material Theming which makes it easy to customize Material Design to match your brand. Material Design is not just a set of guidelines it is a whole ecosystem. Material itself stopped maintaining it's react implementation and recommends opensource versions.  A very popular open source implementation is  MUI ,  a react component library  built to implement Material Design . Bills itself as the "worlds most popular React UI framework" and at this time has 1.2M weekly downloads on npm and used by over 750k projects on github (did I mention it's very popular?).  Note: there are other react component libraries implementing bootstrap and ant design for example, so up to you and your design team on what you choose. 
Read more

angular js protractor e2e cheatsheet

Many from the protractor test suite category detailed task syntax example load page load a page browser.get('yoururl') browser btn actions browser back/forward browser.navigate().back() OR browser.navigate().forward() access elements on page See Protractor API list and examples from Protractors test suite access by angular ngmodel name (must match ngmodel in the html) this is the preferred approach element(by.model('person.name')); access by the css id on the page e.g, #user_name (but this can be brittle) element(by.id('user_name')) access angular binding to get generated value i.e. for {{}} element(by.binding('person.concatName')); access angular repeat list data (must match repeat stmt in the html) See Protractor test suit l
Read more

react-router v6.4+ loaders, actions, forms and more

react-router  react-router is used for in app single page app navigation, we configure routes for pages in the app to map to components react-router has over 1bn downloads, its an industry standard (but there are others e.g. Nextjs router) many apps use react-router, many on v5.x the new react-router 6.4.x the newest major version of react router v6.4 is a significant enhancement which adds a lot of new features. react-router v6.4 offers new features to load data (loaders) and handle actions (actions).  It's done gone all Remix-y which makes sense because the same guys wrote both. eliminates a lot of boilerplate code to fetch data in useEffect() and set various loading states put your data load and update logic in react-route components instead of custom code unlike Remix, react-router v6.4 is still just all on the client (not server like Remix) paradigm shifts Lets start with a couple of high level ideas; "back to the future" so to speak OR "what's old is new ag
Read more