Will Rational XDE Developer ever support reverse engineering of sequence diagrams from code (as in Borland Together ControlCenter)?
Rational XDE Developer Plus supports Visual Trace of running applications, which can capture and create sequence diagrams based on actual executing code. This is far superior to the static sequence diagrams produced by ControlCenter, which only give you a view of static software; there are a lot of other factors that come into play that affect the actual running software. Reverse-engineered sequence diagrams don’t participate in runtime debugging or testing, so you can’t relate such a diagram to a specific usage scenario. Also, static diagrams display all code paths at the same time, forcing you to view unnecessary, unfiltered information.
