Re: Popular Design Diagram Methods For Ada

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Chris M. Moore wrote:
> 
> 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...
> 
You are pretty close to exactly on target. There is no documentation for
the body of code I am examining. I wouldn't do it that way, but what's
done is done. Now the job involves doing various systems analysis things
and we think we'd be better off with at least some sketchy diagrams that
illustrate the links between various subsystems, etc. So I'm off on a
quest for a design methodology & tools which are the current "state of
the art" and would allow us to diagram general Ada structures since the
software was not entirely built on one specific methodology. (Its Ada83
and has some Object Oriented appearance, but is not entirely so. I've
got to represent any Ada structures - in particular tasks.)

At one time, I took a cursory look at the HOOD design methodology but I
don't recall where I found documentation on it. I also don't know if it
is currently very popular. I'd like to steer this project (and future
ones) towards something that is fairly common and which has a good
future. I don't want to be stranded with something obscure and
unsupported.

MDC
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