From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Marco Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Will UML helps to document Ada sources ? Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <471cab23-d325-4b8a-b1ce-3e30badc9409@x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <7cb964c8-497f-4d01-9cfa-fefd909b1bd8@q11g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.244.32.26 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1248532072 10082 127.0.0.1 (25 Jul 2009 14:27:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:27:52 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.244.32.26; posting-account=WITAxQkAAAAHjnLda9Lofpqp8mERTWL4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7339 Date: 2009-07-25T07:27:51-07:00 List-Id: On Jul 18, 4:01=A0pm, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne) wrote: > Hi folks, > > I was thinking about using UML diagrams to express the overview of an > Ada design. Designing with Ada is already a kind of modelisation in > some way, but I was thinking it would be nice to have some diagrams > for a quicker and easier understanding and to have a more abstract > overview on the design. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrello_UML_Modeller is free and does Ada Personally I just use the Pavel Visio stencils. UML is good for giving a big picture overview especially the sequence and state diagrams. It bogs down when folks try to add too much detail in their diagrams.