Mission
This project develops an application which can convert a trace file
in text format to UML sequence diagrams. The application can also modify the
diagrams and save in the same format.
Trace2UML can be used to draw diagrams for Doxygen. See Description.
NEW: Trace2UML can be used
to integrate sequence diagrams into dokuwiki. See Description.
The tool is needed by the Project Astade,
it should be useful for programmers of other projects, too.
It is written with the Astade tool. Try it, you can download here: http://trace2uml.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=6208
Some screen shots
The features
- reads special trace files which can easily be generated by any
application.
- the trace can easily be edited by hand, too.
- draws nice (graphical) UML sequence diagrams.
- you can export in .pdf, .png and .svg.
- can modify the diagrams
- the source (trace file) is pretty usable as a debug trace, too.
- the planned sequences and the recorded ones can be compared by a text
diff.
The Trace format (details)
| Symbol |
description |
| ; |
lines starting with ';' are comments. They are
not drawn. |
| # |
lines starting with '#' are visible comments. They are
drawn with a horizontal line. |
| ! |
this is used to notify the existence of an object (the
creation is not in the scope of the trace). This is automatically
inserted when you use an object name not mentioned before. |
| (!) |
this is used to notify an object creation. |
| (X) |
this is used to notify an object deletion. |
| >-- |
this is used to notify an asynchronous message send. |
| --> |
this is used to notify an asynchronous message receive. |
| >-> |
this is a shortcut when typing traces by hand. Creates both
an asynchronous message send and a corresponding message receive. |
| ==> |
this is used to notify a synchronous function call. |
| <== |
this is used to notify a synchronous function return. |
| >>> |
this is used to notify a state change. |
| [...] |
everything set into square brackets is treated as user
data. It stays in the trace line without having any effect on the graphics.
You can use it for timestamps or remarks. |
The forbear of this tool is UMLGraph
from Diomidis Spinellis.
