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From: chris.m.moore@gecm.com (Chris M. Moore)
Subject: Re: Popular Design Diagram Methods For Ada
Date: 2000/02/03
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On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 20:37:25 GMT, Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
wrote:

>In article <38986B2C.D4BDB7A4@quadruscorp.com>,
>  "Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote:

>> I have a large body of Ada code which may need some "reverse
>> engineering" That is to say, producing some design documentation by
>> analysis of the code. Its been a while since I've had to deal with an
>> issue such as this, so what I would like to know is: What is/are the
>> currently popular design methodologies for Ada and what tools are
>> currently in vogue for doing this design work?

I can't help thinking that design comes before coding and that you
should have a design to document already.  If it's locked in the head
of some ex-employee then I guess a few derrived diagrams are better
than nothing...

>When last I used ObjectTeam it had the ability to reverse-engineer into
>UML. It has since been bought by Sterling Software and is now
>COOL:somethingorother.

So once expressed in UML can you code generate C++?  Would you want
to?  :-)

--
Chris M. Moore
Software engineer
speaking for myself