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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Should I learn UML 2.0? Post 302098133 by cbkihong on Thursday 30th of November 2006 08:24:37 PM
Old 11-30-2006
For software engineering, yes, at least most people will say yes. For software development, yes and no. To communicate with those software engineers who do use UML, yes. To use tools which require UML, yes. To make those pillow-thick specifications full of design diagrams as demanded by some large companies, yes. Otherwise, no.

But considering UML is just a way, albeit commonly agreed, to modeling, provided you can communicate your design to others, I see no reason to reject any usage of some variations of UML or even something totally different for representation.

I'm somewhat a software engineer. I have not formally learned UML (actually I have scratched the surface - that was when I was still in university some years ago) but over time I found myself not totally adhering to UML most of the time. Frankly I don't do diagrammatic modeling and design that much. Most of the time, I just build class interfaces as prototypes directly and then fill in the code without using any modeling tools (I don't have money to ever touch any of them). I may also choose to prototype in a language that I know best (that will most likely be some scripting language such as PHP or Perl), and then porting that design eventually to the platform I need to support (such as Java, or C[++]).

If one day you somehow get the chance to use some RAD toolts like Rational Rose, then UML will be a must because that's what it uses.
 

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pyreverse(1)							   User's Manual						      pyreverse(1)

NAME
pyreverse - parse python sources files and extract diagrams from them. SYNOPSIS
pyreverse [options] <modules> DESCRIPTION
pyreverse is a python source analyzer. It parses a python packages and produces UML diagrams in different output formats. (dot, all formats available for dot, and vcg). With different options, you can have fine tuning on what and how modules, classes and attributes will be shown in the diagram. You can combine several modules in one project (except with -c ). If no -c and no --diadefs option specified, pyreverse will create - a diagram 'classes_<name>' for the classes in <modules> and ( if there is more than one module in <projects> ) - a diagram 'packages_<name>' for the package dependencies in <modules> With -c <class>, pyreverse creates a diagram for that <class> with filename <class>.<format>. You can do -c <class1> , -c <class2>. OPTIONS
-h, --help show help message and exit -p<name>, --project=<name> set project name to <name> if not using -c option. (default:'No Name') -i<file>, --ignore=<file> add <file> (may be a directory) to the black list (not parsed) -f<mode>, --filter-mode=<mode> filter attributes and functions according to <mode>. You can combine modes using '+' like 'SPECIAL+OTHER'. Correct modes are : - 'PUB_ONLY' : filter all non public attributes (default) - 'ALL' : no filter - 'SPECIAL' : filter Python special functions except constructor - 'OTHER' : filter protected and private attributes [currentt: PUB_ONLY] -d<file>, --diadefs=<file> create diagram according to the diagrams definitions in <file> -c <class>, --class=<class> create a class diagram with all classes related to <class> [current: none] the class must be in the file <modules>. By default, this will include all ancestors and associated classes of <class> and include module names (i.e. '-ASmy' ). -a <ancestor>, --show-ancestors=<ancestor> show <ancestor> generations of ancestor classes not in <projects> -A, --all-ancestors=[yn] show all ancestors off all classes in <projects> [current: none] -s <ass_level>, --show-associated=<associated> show <ass_level> associated classes. <ass_level>=1 will only take classes directly related to the classes in the project, while <ass_level>=2 will also take all classes related to those fetched by<depth>=1. -S, --all-associated=[yn] show recursively all associated off all associated classes [current: none] -b, --builtin include builtin objects in representation of classes [current: False] -m [yn], --module-names=[yn] include module name in representation of classes. This will include full module path in the class name. [current: none] -k, --only-classnames don't show attributes and methods in the class boxes; this disables -f values [current: False] -o <format>, --output=<format> create a *.<format> output file if format available. Available formats are all formats that dot can produce and vcg. [default: dot] EXAMPLES
Here are some examples for command line options : pyreverse <project> -a1 -s1 -m -a1 -s1 will include one level of ancestor and associated classes in the diagram of the <project> modules, while -m will show the full module path of each class. You can use the same way the -a, -s, -A, -S options. Note that on class diagrams (using -c ) -a and -s will rather reduce than enlarge your diagram. pyreverse mod/foo.py mod/fee.py -k This is interesting if the diagram for <project>=mod is too complicated: you can show only the class names (no attributes or meth- ods, option -k); or take only the modules you are interested in (here fee.py and foo.py). REQUIRES
Python SEE ALSO
dot(1), pylint(1) http://www.logilab.org/pyreverse AUTHORS
Sylvain Thenault, Emile Anclin This manpage was written by Emile Anclin <emile.anclin@logilab.fr> pyreverse August 18, 2008 pyreverse(1)
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