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As Bill Gibson mentioned in an earlier post in this forum, MS are working on the 'drill-in' feature in the App Designer which would allow a better 'ground up' building and view of the architecture within a system. Some people have posted a sample DSL (work in progress) that shows GoF patterns and im sure much more can be done. Im keen on exploring the possibilities in the DSL space.

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I'd rather not wade through reams of code and i cant ask the developers to keep drawing and re-drawing sequence diagrams (no budget for the XDE type stuff anyway).

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What I would like to see though is something (preferably free or at least inexpensive) that performs a static analysis on the code and generates some sequence diagrams because i think thats a useful tool for code reviews. For a while i played with EA which is great but I then found a free OMA UML Stencil which didnt validate the shapes and allowed them to be used in a much more free style which i prefer so im sticking with Visio for the time being. I initially didnt use Visio because i found the built in stencil too restrictive in the way it protected shapes from being resized. I dont bother with code generation because you need the expensive tools to keep the roundtripping especially with TDD and frequent re-factoring which makes class diagrams go out of date really quickly.

Hi, I mainly use the UML for initial sketches of the architecture (and that too only component and deployment diagrams and some sequence diagrams for showing the interaction between services).

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However, I'm actually much more comfortable with the strategy as I understand it for the whole software factories initiative and any manifestations in terms of the tooling in particular around the 'executable model' whereby the gaps between models or perhaps layers in a system are deliberately and systematically minimised.Īny tools aimed more at the software architect with these aims in mind would be really welcome. So I guess overall I'm still used to using UML or least two of the modelling styles (coming from a more RUP oriented background but in the last 9 months getting into the Agile/SCRUM arena). I think the ability to do this in VS.NET 2005 whether built in or through a DSL toolkit extension with the added capability to both reflect through existing code and code gen new solution and project items would be tremendously useful and also hit that sweet spot in terms of not being overly onerous or time consuming to produce. I would use this for two main purposes: one would be classic top-down design and the other would be bottom-up to capture an existing set of interactions from a code-base of interest, simply to gain a clearer understanding of what is going on. interactions between elements in the model. I used to use sequence or collaboration diagrams for this (and I've tried most tools from XDE, Rose, what was TogetherSoft ControlCenter and of course, EA from Sparx Systems) and liked the overall approach because it provided the missing piece that is needed when capturing this part of a system design i.e. The main area that I really miss time and time again is any form of support for modelling messages between objects/classes or even services. On our current project we regularly post class diagrams to our project wiki to capture up to date sub-system designs or areas of the system which require a more formal sketch of some sort as an aide to understanding.