This tip contrasts to tip 6-3 (schematic scenarios).

The original intention of UML sequence diagrams was showing interactions between concrete instances of classes, with method invocations and parameters,

• the lowest level of detail you can have. In this level, we talk about the instance ‘Homer Simpson’ instead of the class Person.

The advantages of such details are thoroughness and accuracy: You visualize single executions of source code.

Please document details with caution - and only if relevant stakeholders really need them!

Heavy disadvantages:

The disadvantage of these details are the immense creation and maintenance effort, and the potentially low readability of very detailed runtime diagrams.