They show the flow of messages and the order in which these messages are exchanged. Sequence diagrams are a type of Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagram that shows the interactions between different components or objects in a system over time. Then I’ll show how AppMap makes sequence diagrams even better, by (a) generating diagrams from your running code and (b) making diagrams fully interactive. I’ll also give you a tour through the features of sequence diagrams, and explain how to use each feature to interpret the behavior of your code. In this article, I’ll introduce sequence diagrams and describe what they are good for. You may have heard about or experienced the value of sequence diagrams.
