Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Development in a big enterprise environment


I work in a department of 14 business analyst. Our main job responsibilities are from requirement analysis to design the software system. We use UML for analysis and design. After we design the system, the software production take over the design and start coding and then testing and release.
But my concern is what benefits our UML design brings to the production department? Because they don't want to see a 200 page document. So for a long time I was searching for a tool that can help in this environment. Basically I want our output to be the input of production department and their output to be the input of testing department. I also need to manage the security as well because i don't want a programmer to change the class diagram or an analyst to change the test result.

Some tools are too expensive. I found Enterprise Architect by Sparx Systems.
I found this tool helpfull. I tried the demo version. The tool also generate report in HTML and RTF format and help you not to write 200/300 page document. This tool can generate code as well. But the security system not so smart.

I havn't tried Visual Paradism. Rational Rose is too espensive. Is there any tool that can full fill my needs?

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