Code flowcharts

Wal972 posted on Thursday, March 29, 2007

Hi

I justed to see what the consensus was for creating flowcharts of my code. The application is becoming more complex and I need to create flowcharts to keep track of things. So I was wondering how people have handled this in the past. Also if there's some good books I can use as reference to get consistancy. (its been a while since I've looked at such things)

Thanks for any suggestions made.

Ellie

pelinville replied on Thursday, March 29, 2007

oops?

Bayu replied on Friday, March 30, 2007

Haha,

There is one book about UML that I could recommend, it is 'UML Distilled' from the well-know author Martin Fowler (teamed up with Kendall Scott for this book). What I like about this book is that the authors take a pragmatic view towards modeling where UML is a means to an end, as opposed to some other books I read where 'perfect' UML was the goal in itself.

Although UML will help you in describing your software, it will of course not address the fact that your software is still getting more and more complex. ;-) To keep things maintainable you might 'grow' your code into a more modularized architecture perhaps (e.g. separate assemblies)?

Regards,
Bayu