On 23/01/07, ashley maher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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Afternoon Peoples,
I've landed an opportunity that could lead me designing a system where
the coders are overseas. I'm used to designing and coding myself, or
at most one other.
So I figured I needed a good modelling tool and asked a mate, who
works in this space more than I, what UML tool he uses at the moment.
His reply was, none.
"UML is a productivity tool with a negative coefficient".
So in the situation described what design tools are people using at
the moment? Are they language dependant, or general tools? Has UML
fallen out of favour?
Ideas and opinions great fully received.
I'll take the easy road and not (yet :) comment on the usefulness of
UML as a way of specifying design.
If you do want to go down this path I can recommend the free software
tool ArgoUML (http://argouml.tigris.org/) which I've used in
semi-anger.
It's not perfect, but it's free as in beer and as in freedom (aka "Use
the source, Luke")
HTH,
--
Michael Davies "Do what you think is interesting, do somthing that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise
http://michaeldavies.org you won't do it well anyway." -- Brian Kernighan
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