Martin Flower is a big trick in his nearest blog, saying to use text to represent the UML chart. Some people will say that since they are charts, they must be represented by the figure. But why is Martin proposed a new method? The following is extracted from his own
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The biggest thing I would like however is to specify my UML diagrams as text That may sound strange -. After all UML diagrams are diagrams, so why use text Text has some advantages Much of diagram layout is tedious to fiddle with in diagrammatic form?. , and would be much easier to do textually - using the diagrams as a visualization rather than an editing mechanism Also text formats allow you to easily track changes over time text represented UML diagrams to linearize the data representation with cvs and diff,.. This improves the sustainability of the data. In fact, I have always thought that the content of an object is the easiest way to use a linear way is the most difficult thing. Sometimes "Thousands of Monolescents have a painting", but the real expression expert can express it with a very beautiful statement. Improve the ability of language and is equivalent to improving our design capabilities. It is of course inconvenient to use Text, because it is not intuitive, and the speed is slower. So we have to combine the use of chart design tools and text representations, so that UML provides us with more powerful system design capabilities.
