Sequence Diagram and reverse engeeniring

[kardath]

Hi,


Could we generate code from a sequence diagram?

Thanks

[thomaskilian]

I once had written something to do that for Rose in very special circumstances. If you want to do that: EA offers a similar mechanism (automation interface). It's nothing you can do in a weekend but it's feasible.

[kardath]

Thanks but, I've no the time to do that. Anyone have developped this?

Thanks

[TrtnJohn]

Am I missing something here?  Are people using sequence diagrams to write code?  Or, do they feel that reverse engineering a sequence diagram from code is a good way to document the code?  I've never understood the value of either generated code from sequence diagrams or generating sequence diagrams from code.  What am I overlooking?

[thomaskilian]

I can tell you what I used it for (it's strange!): Quite a time ago, when UML was new to me and my colleaues, we were looking for a representation of the navigation flow between different data manipulation screens. At last we used SD to show the possible flows and generated PHP code with according navigation references. As I sayed, it's strange and I doubt whether I'd do it this way the next time.