On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 10:09:36 -0500 Garrett Goebel wrote: +------------------ | From: Rocco Caputo | > I keep looking at UML, but nothing on the web has made much of an | > impression with me. Is there a good book about UML? | | UML Distilled: www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020165783X | | > POE users should not be required to know UML. | | It its done well, consumers of UML diagrams hardly have to know UML... That | is to say Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) can work for UML diagrams as well. +------------------
I find much of UML very useful in the design process. But the diagram->code parts of Rose seem like the smallest, least important part of the effort. There are better approaches for Perl projects, XP, and CRC come to mind. Casual use of ERD, lifecycle, and other diagrams can help illuminate a design, but it seems to me that developers spend an inordanate ammount of time making their "diagrams pretty" when that time would be better spent writing design stories and test cases. --
