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Question: Visio and Mutiple Users (UML Modeling)
Hello,
I have a question regarding multiple developers collaborating on a UML model using Visio. First some background. My team has been using Rational Rose for years and we are in the midst of evaluating alternatives. We believe that we would be better served by a simpler tool than Rose, as our UML modeling requirements are more or less concentrated on the ability to create sequence diagrams and class diagrams (NOT the whole litany of additional functionality provided by Rose). We basically want to simplify things and make designing our objects a less cumbersome process. Now to the problem. Rose provided a feature that supported multi-user development that we can not seem to find/duplicate in Visio. The feature Rose gave us was the ability to break up a UML model into physical files (.cat files). This provided us with two benefits that came in handy while doing team development. 1) The ability to break up a model so that multiple developers could work on different pieces of it at the same time 2) The ability have "common files" that you could reference elsewhere in the model, enabling one to do things like reuse existing class definitions Does Visio (any version) provide functionally that would support this type of model development? If not, is there any way that we could achieve our multi-user requirements (model compartmentalization, reuse) using Visio? Any light that anyone can shed on this issue will be most appreciated. Thanks, Eric |
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