On Saturday 01 April 2006 06:05, Rohit V. Bhute wrote:
I had an Object Oriented Analysis and Development (OOAD) course in my 7th sem. The stuff Mr. Unny talks about is right out of that - use cases, test cases, flow charts and the grand-daddy - UML. I believed (and still believe) that such obsessive documentation is a coverup for bad software. He is also very infatuated with SDKs. And dis-illusioned with Open Source software mailing lists and developers. We all can vouch for both - there have been many a times that both lists and developers have responded positively to my pleas for help. Maybe he forgot a certain stellar article of how NOT to post to a list or ask a developer and what to do BEFORE asking them.
UML is a big joke. I have read Grady Booch, Ali Bahrami's books. I have it this sem in my engineering course. UML is crap. It has redundant info all over the place. Sequence, Collaboration, Class diagram and the biggest joke of them of all - Object diagram. Even Ali Bahrami himself acknowledges that UML is a monster. Something that you really dont want in a software development process. I would really love to see the UML models for M$ WinXP or better yet WinVaporware. Oh crap. Thats right I cant. Because its proprietary...