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A representation of our two parent use cases and their included child for the vending machine is shown below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"213\" src=\"https:\/\/ropley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UCInclude.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25846\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ropley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UCInclude.png 536w, https:\/\/ropley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/UCInclude-300x119.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ropley.com\/?page_id=25792\" title=\"The Use Case Editor\">Back to Use Case Editor documentation contents &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representing Include Relationships in UML UML use case diagrams support a notational relationship to represent includes between use cases. This is drawn as a dashed dependency arrow from the parent use case towards the included sub-use case. The arrow should be labelled with the&nbsp;stereotype&nbsp;&lt;&lt;include&gt;&gt;. 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