Have you ever thinks how tools can improve your performance, according to casual research tools provides 40%-60% productivity, It’s mean when the team or member can get the suitable tools for their work, they will get performance boost.
Choosing tools, in software engineering purpose is tricky, some of the tools is going to be novel by providing ultimate tools with everything inside. In this post i will lists some of the tools that i have tested by myself and personal comment about the tools.
| Tools Name | Comment | URL | License |
| Rational Software Architect | The Legend!, formerly known as Rational Rose, It’s provide ultimate suites, | Here | Commercial |
| Enterprise Architect | Mostly used in small, medium, isv in Indonesia. Quite popular because the lightness and the features | Here | Commercial |
| Visual Paradigm | This tools is great for newbie, and it also come for free or commercial | Here | Commercial/Community |
| Sybase Powerdesigner | This tools is the most complece tools among the others | Here | Commercial |
| Posseidon | Suffcient tools for anyone who want to create UML diagram | Here | Commercial/Community |
| Argo UML | Free!, and it support the roundtrip engineering | Here | Open Sources |
Thats it my fav tools, you can also find others here and here
When i’m first work into industry i’m using Borland Together after that i got my second jobs and using Sybase Powerdesigner, and after that i always use Enterprise Architect.
Cheers
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