Marin D. Condic <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> a �crit dans le message :
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> Helpful Hint For Toolmakers: A design tool that lets you draw things at
> a gross level and then "push down" into details (or "pop up" from
> details to a higher context) would be *very* useful. Also, the ability
> to flag features such that they can be "filtered out" of the view of a
> diagram would be useful. Think about how a package may have one major
> type and a handful of important subprograms. Yet there may be a
> half-dozen other visible types which are necessary, but unimportant to
> understanding what the package is all about. Being able to specify
> levels of importance and filtering out the details (a sort of "zoom"
> function) would be a very handy thing to have.
>
If that's what you want, then you should *really* have a look at HOOD. The
leading ideas  behind the method are "separate concerns" and "manage
complexity".

UML/OMT is a terrific tool to *show* all the complexity of a design, but
HOOD is a very effective method to *hide* (and manage) the complexity.

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