What are Class Diagrams?
Class diagrams are a type of UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagram used in software engineering to visually represent the structure and relationships of classes within a system i.e. used to construct and visualize object-oriented systems.
In these diagrams, classes are depicted as boxes, each containing three compartments for the class name, attributes, and methods. Lines connecting classes illustrate associations, showing relationships such as one-to-one or one-to-many.
Class diagrams provide a high-level overview of a system’s design, helping to communicate and document the structure of the software. They are a fundamental tool in object-oriented design and play a crucial role in the software development lifecycle.
What is Class Diagram also called?
In the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a class diagram is also called a structural diagram. Let’s understand what are class diagrams and structural diagrams. Also why a class diagram is called a structural diagram?