- The use of diagrams to illustrate design intensions.
- One that I use the most is the Class Diagrams
- Mermaid Markdown Graph supports it quite well, will be using it quite a lot for documentation, but also for understanding it.
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title: Animal example
---
classDiagram
note "From Duck till Zebra"
Animal <|-- Duck
note for Duck "can fly\ncan swim\ncan dive\ncan help in debugging"
Animal <|-- Fish
Animal <|-- Zebra
Animal : +int age
Animal : +String gender
Animal: +isMammal()
Animal: +mate()
class Duck{
+String beakColor
+swim()
+quack()
}
class Fish{
-int sizeInFeet
-canEat()
}
class Zebra{
+bool is_wild
+run()
}