Re: [uml] Bugs everywhere ! :-(

文生 郭 wrote:

Hello,

I have to admit my deception after trying to model my components using the UML module of Netbeans.
I feeled like the authors didn't do any intense debugging and counted too much on the 60cat program to find the bugs for them.

... and I feel that not a lot of people in the 60cat program really tested the UML part.

Actually there's a QE team there to test the UML plugin. The purpose of the 60NetCAT program is not for the program participant to help find bugs in the product but to try out the product and provide feedback before final release. Of course bugs might be encountered during the try-out since it's not the final release.

1) After 10 min of creating "components" and name them on a component diagram, I save it. Then, I realize that the node of the diagram lost its name and can't be opened. No choice, I had to delete it.

Sorry to see that you encountered this problem. Sounds like the issue might be the same as issue 122924, but I am unable to reproduce it with component diagram. Are you using the final version of NetBeans 6.0? Could you please provide the steps to reproduce the issue or you can file a bug in the UML as well if you think this is a different problem.

2) Thankfully, the components that I created are still in the model section, and I just needed to create a new empty diagram and drag them there. But  I ran into other kind of problems:
- I can't drag and drop more than 1 component at the same time and had to do the gesture 12 times to put them all on my new diagram.

A better way to recreate your diagram is to select all the components or elements that you want to include in the diagram, right click on the selection and select "Create Diagram From Selected Elements" menu item, and then select the diagram type you want from the diagram dialog.

- Some of the dependencies that I made between the components doesn't show up on the diagram.

Sounds like a refresh issue. You can click on the diagram window's toolbar button "Relationship Discovery" to automatically display your existing links.

- The arcs that represent the dependencies are represented as set of segments and when I move the component within the diagram, the joins between the segments don't move at all, leaving me in front of a big graphical mess.

Please file a bug on this. In the meantime, there are a few pre-defined diagram layouts that may satisfy your preference. These are the few toolbar buttons on the right of the diagram window.

- There is no way to know the direction of the dependency from the project view when we see the dependencies of a component (they use the same icon for both directions).

The properties window can be used to see the detail of this. Once the link is selected, the properties window will display the client and supplier components.

Sorry guys, but I think I lost my illusion of "the only IDE I need" for tonight and I am gonna use my whiteboard and a pen.

Vincent Cantin

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Thanks,
--Peter