Working With State Diagrams

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UML State diagrams are useful in showing real-time process control applications or systems that involve concurrent processing as well as the behavior of a class over several use cases. A state refers to the value associated with a specific attribute of an object and to any actions or side effects that occur when the attribute's value changes. The IDE's UML Modeling feature lets you:

The following illustration shows the simple states of a traffic light.

Graphic displaying an example of connecting simple states

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About State Diagrams
State Diagram Elements

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