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russ lyttle <lyttlec@removegmail.com> writes:

> Diagrams are much more difficult to maintain than text. During the
> life of the project, they tend to fall more and more out of synch. How
> does your automated requirements tracker diff two diagrams?

Hence your remark about text > diagrams.

We had a code generator, which was also capable of outputting
documentation in HMTL. We could diff the old & the new HTML in Word,
made life very straightforward.

Of course a requirements diagram is going to be much more handwavy.