Rusty-
What we did on our program was to build a View of the model that helps to navigate to
the appropritate levels.
This view is containe din our Logical View and easily allowes tracing down through
various levels of Classes and their methods.
Then when a user wants to see the usecases or sequence diagrams for one of these
methods, it is simple enough to right click and select show usage, which will bring up
a list of the class diagrams , and sequence diagrams that actually employ the selected
method.
hope this helps
Ashley Raiteri
Boeing
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> From: Williamson, Rusty[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: Williamson, Rusty
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 6:38 PM
> To: 'Rose Forum'
> Subject: (ROSE) Model navigation...
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>
> Hello,
>
> On thing that has come up during the development of the Modeling Guidelines
> is the question of how much effort and attention should be given to model
> navigation: specifically making it easy to know what diagrams exist and
> getting to them.
>
> My thoughts are that:
> a) The models can become quite large and some diagrams are buried deep
> within the models -- it would require expanding several levels down and then
> across packages in the browser to get to some diagrams and without knowing
> what exists significant searching around just to see what exists.
> b) Many stakeholders unfamiliar with the project (first time viewers or
> those joining for the development of the next version) will need to view
> and/or work with the models -- many unfamiliar with what diagrams do and/or
> 'can' exist, where to look for them and with varying proficiency with Rose.
> c) Making model navigation (drill- up and down) easy and intuitive as well
> as making all models visible can be done with minimal effort.
>
> Yes Rose has 'find' and 'browse' but in both cases you have to know what
> your looking for. I believe that this issue applies to all of the models
> but especially to the use-case model.
>
> Others argue that all this is simply unimportant. Maybe their right. I
> wanted to get the thoughts of others who had been through the process of
> managing complex models (and ours will be complex) through several life
> cycles. Your thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Rusty
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> GERS Retail Systems
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