Documenting Software Architecture

One of the challenges in software design is documentation. Specific software documentation needs to be discussed with the development team as well as with customers and project managers. All these team players have different skills and views of the project, so documentation including diagrams, schemes, and presentations with different level of details and visualization are necessary for a successful project completion.


The complexity of software architecture design entails long process of discussion and agreement. An easy way to ease this process is the use of UML and ERD diagrams. It is easy to accelerate the time needed to create these diagrams, by utilizing software tools.

Such a tool should contain sets of ready to use objects that adhere to the standards of software development. After such a diagram is created, it should be shared among the project team.

ConceptDraw PRO contains a vast library of software architecture objects. With the help of such objects you can create specific developer diagrams, such as UML or ERD diagrams, as well as presentations of software product prototype for management and marketing. This can be done using sets of standard GUI elements of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office 2007, and Mac OS X interfaces and their programmable behavior.

The Presentation mode enables users to present and edit documents during meetings. Ready documents may be exported in one of various formats, such as Adobe .PDF for printing or .HTML for web sharing.

Visually appealing presentations make it easier to retain information from detailed and accurate schemes. This creates a clear project understanding for all participants.

 

Learn How To Create an ERD Diagram with ConceptDraw PRO

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April, 2010


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