Re: Popular Design Diagram Methods For Ada

["Jean St-Pierre" <jstp@deletethis.cae.ca>]

For documentation of existing software, I just downloaded this week an
evaluation copy of Understand Ada from http://www.scitools.com/ and ran a
test case. It did a pretty good job. I've just started looking at it really,
so I can't tell if it will do everything you need. It's worth a try anyway.
The only problem I've encountered until now is getting readable printouts
(too large if I use "print poster" and too small if I use "print drawing").

Marin D. Condic <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote in message
news:38A05CA8.9F671DAF@quadruscorp.com...
> Pierre Dissaux wrote:
>
> > You can find a few downloadable papers about the HOOD method on our
> > site, and a free demo version of a HOOD tool (STOOD) for Windows and
> > Unix:
>
> Thanks for the info. I had earlier downloaded the STOOD demo, but have
> not downloaded all the documentation. I have driven the tool around in a
> cursory manner and have not yet figured out how to do all the things I
> think I need to do. The tools seems very much oriented towards Object
> Oriented Design (that should be a surprise?) and so I am not sure it
> meets my needs. My current need is to create some documentation for
> existing software that was not built strictly on an OOD paradigm. Hence,
> I need some ability just to make general pictures that represent
> packages, procedures and tasks and be able to illustrate
> interrelationships between them. (Tasks being internal to packages, one
> package withing and calling another, etc.)
>
> So far with the STOOD tool I have not been able to determine how to show
> interconnections between library level packages and mostly there seems
> to be no method of describing tasks. I'm sure that some of this will
> become more apparent as I sift through the documentation, but my initial
> reaction is that I won't meet my "general purpose" requirement with this
> tool.
>
> MDC
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