Re: Is UML of any value in SW-Projects?
On Dec 7, 10:45 pm, Dombo <do...@disposable.invalid> wrote:
Op 07-Dec-10 10:29, James Kanze schreef:
Interesting. To me Rational has always left impression of company that
makes most terrible tools available.
Terrible in what way? And compared to what?
I can't say I have fond memories of Rational Rose. I has been about five
years since I used Rose, so things may have improved for the better, but
back then it was rather prone to crash.
On what platform? I was using it almost ten years ago, under
Solaris on a Sparc, and I never saw it crash.
Stability issues aside it wasn't
exactly the most pleasant piece of software I have ever used. Some
dislike the comments that Rose puts in the generated code to link the
model with the code, but I can live with that.
It's a question of how you configure your editor, I think. At
the time, I was using emacs, and configured it so that the Rose
generated comments were dark gray (on a dark green background),
and hardly visible. Before that, they were annoying (but still
tolerable).
Most other UML tools (MagicDraw, UML Studio and a couple of others) I
have used were more stable and in my opinion more user friendly, but
were pretty useless for round-trip engineering (at least in combination
with C++).
The only other tool I've actually used is Together, and
I haven't used it that much. On a Sparc under Solaris, it was
very un-user friendly, because of the horrible performance; the
performance was such that I can't judge other aspects.
If any of the others are free, I might give them a try. Round
trip is nice, but just maintaining your headers 100% in the tool
(no round-trip, because you regenerated the headers from scratch
each time) is a valid option as well.
--
James Kanze