Best UML design tool for architects?
I have been using the Enterprise Architect tool from sparx systems for last 4+ years for UML based design. Every time I start a new architect role, I used to check with the team which UML tool they are familiar with, so that we can communicate the design to the team more effectively. I am sure, all of us would like to use our favorite tool, if the organization don’t have standards related to design.
Here in my new organization, colleagues use different tools like Rational Rose, StarUML, Visio etc. We will be doing most of the developments in Visual Studio 2005/2008 and C++ or C#. I have worked with Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, Visio, Raphsody, Rational XDE etc, and I did some research on UML tools available in market. I couldn’t find anything better than EA. Please write your comments here if you know any better UML tool for C# based development.
Hi,
I create a lot of sequence diagrams for documentation purposes and had looked at many different UML tools. But they all had usability problems when it came to those particular diagrams.
So I created my own, it’s called Trace Modeler and it’s an easy-to-use and smart editor for UML sequence diagrams. Here’s a 30 sec demo :
http://www.tracemodeler.com/download/index.html
In fact, it is so quick to create and change diagrams that exploratory design with sequence diagrams is finally a viable approach.
Let me know what you think of it, I’m always happy to get feedback!
Best regards,
Yanic
Thanks Yanic. Let me download your tool and evaluate it.