Generate Sequence Diagrams
With Enterprise Architect you can easily create detailed and comprehensive Sequence diagrams from your recorded debug sessions. You can generate a Sequence diagram:
- For a method (operation) of a specific Class (the simplest process), or
- By stepping through your executing code and recording specific execution traces between breakpoints, either manually or automatically, or between recording markers.
Enterprise Architect takes the recorded stack history captured during one of these runs and automatically builds the Sequence diagram, including compacting looping sessions for easy reading. You can control aspects of the diagram generation by setting options on the Sequence tab of the Build Script dialog, or after recording execution traces when the Generate Sequence Diagram dialog displays.
If required, you can prepare your project and debugger to show State transitions in the generated Sequence diagrams.
Before recording execution, you must set up your debugger and run and debug your application successfully.
The following diagram illustrates the kind of diagram you can produce by carefully stepping through your running program or letting Enterprise Architect profile it automatically.
