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Date:	Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:57:46 PST8
From:	"Lynn H. Maxson" <lmaxson@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	"SCOUG Programming SIG" <scoug-programming@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: Check this out

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http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/developme
nt/story/0,10801,109535,00.html?source=NLT_APP2&nid=109535

I had a full-blown debate with a major proponent of agile
programming which eventually led to his eliminating me from
the mailing list. UML, an OO-based CASE effort, has some 16
or so different source documents. Agile programming's basic
premise says that not all are necessary for a given
application. Thus eliminating the unnecessary ones, not
spending the time on them, reduces the initial documentation
effort as well as maintenance (in theory). Unfortunately it did
not offer a means of categorizing projects with "must use"
and therefore "do not use" list of UML documentation.

My argument, of course, lay in not writing different source
documents (with different source files to maintain) which
later then either manually or automatically in software
produced source code. but instead to write in a single source
language from which you can produce the different UML
documents of your choice. Thus if you make a mistake on the
"must use", you note it with the tool and you now get a
"correct" set.

If you read the above article, particularly with respect to
changing requirements, you will note that the proposed tool
easily answers the desired features the author mentions,
particularly that related to "incomplete" requirements. I
addressed that in a previous message on this day.

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