Reverse engineering

[Yoda]

Hi,


testing the software I see a leak in the model generation. For example:

class a {
};

class b {
public:
  void test(a par);
};


The class b has a parameter of type a…but this dependency is not shown in the class diagram generated from the software.



I committed a mistake using EA or is a feature not supported?


thank you

[thomaskilian]

I'm not sure about that, but I think that this has been discussed here. So, AFAIK EA can't recognize these dependencies and aka does not create it in the model. I might be wrong, though.

[Eve]

Hi Yoda,

I'll confirm what Thomas is saying.  EA currently doesn't create dependency connectors in reverse engineering.

However, I'd also like to say that EA can and does recognise the relationship.  I believe that EA would have set the classifier for the parameter.  The dependencies that EA can't recognise is when a class is used inside the method bodies of a class.

The only thing that is missing is the visual indication of the dependency.

[james.kinneavy]

Is apply the visual indicator of a dependency in Sparx' roadmap?  I've had a number of colleagues ask me about this and were disappointed to hear that EA doesn't support it.  I know I'd like it