Good software for software planning? [closed]

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Is 开发者_运维问答there software that can help create flow charts, class diagrams etc to help software development planning.

Thanks

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You can create all kinds of charts and diagrams with something like Microsoft Visio or the open-source Dia.

If you want to auto-generate things like this, take a look at using a UML-based tool. A list of some UML tools is available here.

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As a open-source fan and contributor, I tried Dia on Ubuntu, but it was way too clumsy for what I needed to do. One thing I wanted to do was get raster or vector snapshots of fairly complex multi-page diagrams and put them in a wiki page, and Dia really couldn't cope with that - the fonts went all wonky and so on.

If you try Dia and find it doesn't work for you, and you have access to a Mac, try OmniGraffle. It's pretty slick.

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I use Graphviz in conjunction with doxygen. Search for both on Stack Overflow, there are lots of tips,such as this page.

In particular, as a highly-iterative developer, I really like that the diagrams I create with Graphviz are stored in a simple textual fashion and so can be included in version control and diff nicely.

There's a very nice iPad/iPhone version of Graphviz called Instaviz which allows you to exchange diagrams with your desktop machine and tweak them on the pad.

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We used Rational Rose in class to do that. It also does much more:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/developer/rose/

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I use this Software Ideas Modeller, or rather, used to before everything was built into Visual Studio (Ultimate with the many plugins that are available for it).