I have not been a great fan of reverse engineering tools in general. When I was creating applications in years ago, I held great hope for Visual Modeler. I do strongly believe in providing adequate documentation for an application and I most certainly value implementing an appropriate design phase during a project’s lifecycle. The tools available for accomplishing this have been sorely lacking in key areas, in my opinion.

What makes a documentation / design tool a good one? Well, seamless integration into the development process is one quality that is important to me. I detest having to input the same information more than once. That is one of the greatest strong points of automation. I’ve designed applications to automate workflow processes and share information between systems using tools that did not provide a solid way to do this with the development process. Read More→

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