Introduction

The UML includes statechart diagram notation to illustrate the events and states of things—transactions, use cases, people, and so forth. The most important notational features are shown, but there are others not covered in this introduction.

The use of statechart diagrams is emphasized for showing system events in use cases, but they may additionally be applied to any class.

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