corelinux-public

[Corelinux-public] More reqs coming

[Frank V. C. <fr...@co...>]

My apologies for the sudden black out, I was (still am) being wracked by
this weeks favor of flu.

I have expanded the Patterns Structural requirements in the forum so
each pattern has a req ID. I will be posting the initial functional
requirement for each as I did with the Adapter Pattern. In addition I
will be:

1. Making the spelling corrections pointed out in the From Analysis To
Design document and posting
2. Adding Date Last Updated to the web pages
3. Turning the Req Docs into HTML for posting on the web.
4. Posting the remaining Patterns Requirement (Structural) Functional
Requirement Document on the mailing list then #3.

If anyone is looking for something to do, you can expand the Patterns
Creational or Behavioral in like fashion and take a whack at a
Functional Requirement doc.

As far as Argo/UML I have yet to hear back from the author about the
future work. It lacks some key UML features yet.

As far as MagicDraw UML I have posted a e-mail looking for a "controlled
donation" of fully capable versions as a good-will gesture for our
effort. I offered a reference to their site on each document we generate
from the tool. No word. Worst case, we should hopefully be done with
diagrams by April 1st 2000 for at least libcorelinux++. The caveat here
is that all the requirements are not in.

If you got 'em, lets here 'em so we can figure them in.

-- 
Frank V. Castellucci
http://corelinux.sourceforge.net
OOA/OOD/C++ Standards and Guidelines for Linux

Re: [Corelinux-public] More reqs coming

[Joe N. <3ne...@pr...>]

> As far as Argo/UML I have yet to hear back from the author about the
> future work. It lacks some key UML features yet.
> 
> As far as MagicDraw UML I have posted a e-mail looking for a "controlled
> donation" of fully capable versions as a good-will gesture for our
> effort. I offered a reference to their site on each document we generate
> from the tool. No word. Worst case, we should hopefully be done with
> diagrams by April 1st 2000 for at least libcorelinux++. The caveat here
> is that all the requirements are not in.

How about KUML? It's free, and lots of work is being done on it.
http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~kuml/

--Joe

Re: [Corelinux-public] More reqs coming

[Frank V. C. <fr...@co...>]

> How about KUML? It's free, and lots of work is being done on it.
> http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~kuml/
>
> --Joe

Joe,

I had looked at KUML a bit back. I even conversed with some of the
developers on the lack of constraints (OCL). They indicated that they
would like to add them, but it was not a priority. As with Argo/UML
there are a few key UML pieces missing.

In addition their host page states

"The program isn't useable currently. Don't start to do your work with
it. Your work maybe will lost. "

which is understandable given it is WIP.

Another problem I see is that it would require KDE installed. While I
personally do have this, I don't know about everyone else. I guess the
same argument can be said about Java.

Finally, with KUML it is not clear as to what format the diagrams are
saved in. They have a feature for XML/XMI but I don't think it is ready.

My thoughts are to keep an eye on all the possible, but I also think
that we need usable solutions now.

Thoughts?

Frank