Develop software projects based on visual designing patterns. Access a collection of tools for creating, editing, copying, and testing the elements of the project. Work with ML, BPMN, ERD, DFD, SysML, and similar types of content. Check the integrity of files.
Visual Paradigm integrates all the tools a software developer requires to manage an entire project from start to finish. From the early design stages to the final documentation, Visual Paradigm offers you diagram, UML modeling, business process modeling, requirements gathering, code engineering, and documentation utilities to perform and manage all the steps required to produce a successful development project.
Offering a well-structured and clear tabbed interface, Visual Paradigm has been devised to help you design, execute, and document your project in the most efficient and professional way. You can start by creating a visual overview of your project using any of the diagrams provided or by compiling as many use case statements as needed. Diagrams come with all the shapes, colors, connectors, and formatting options you can imagine, and they can be use case diagrams, sequence diagrams, activity diagrams, class diagrams, etc.
You may also need to produce also a Business Process Modeling to represent all the operational steps required to fulfill the objectives of the project. Here you can play with events, tasks, and sub-processes to create a BPM diagram that will help you see an overall picture of the project workflow. You can document working procedures and animate business processes, convert tasks into sub-processes, and even add lower-level sub-processes to existing ones in order to visualize the entire workflow in the most comprehensive way.
Tools for gathering requirements from the user are one of the program’s main assets. You can identify use cases with use case statements, write use stories that express the real needs of the users, determine which of these requirements can be considered core features, create sprints with specific user stories, write user story scenarios, produce sketches of the system (or wireframes) to show to the user, and produce a professional set of requirements specifications in HTML, PDF, or Word.
Coding can be synchronized with your UML model via the program’s round-trip engineering. It works with Java and C++, so that you can generate code from a class model or vice versa.
At the final stage of the project is Documentation. Doc. Composer and Fill-in Doc (a mode of the former) will help you to produce attractive professional documents re-using all the information that you have been creating in the previous stages of the project – this draft document is called Doc Base. From here, you can fill all the blanks and make all the necessary changes without worrying about the layout, and without having to produce new diagrams or to re-write existing text. Visual Paradigm not only will save you loads of time with your development projects – it will help you to gather all the information you need and to produce high-quality code and documents in a much shorter period of time.
v12.2 [Aug 24, 2015]
Visual Paradigm 12.2 introduces a number of new features, which includes:
- New search bar
- Work on multiple turns by creating 'stages'
- Resource catalog
- Improved usability of Tasifier
- Management of shared diagrams in PostMania
- Team-based document templates and styles management
Enhancements to Visual Paradigm 12.2 includes:
- Supported showing the description of a model element with note shape
- Automatically create referenced container shape as mirror
- Automatically create the necessary project reference when I refactor a model element being referenced by another project
- Improved the performance in refactoring
- Supported setting direction for information flow in EPC diagram
- Supported allocationsize within sequencegenerator annotation
- Supported choosing template directory for REST API generation
- Supported integrating with Android Studio
- Supported defining Hibernate Configuration Properties
- Improved the performance of committing/updating Teamwork Files
- Supported wireframe in PostMania
- Supported "Search" in PostMania
- Supported disabling diagram link shared via PostMania
- Supported sharing diagram to someone by just entering his email (PostMania)
- Supported uploading avatar when accepting PostMania invitation
- Supported showing diagram viewers through Viewer List (PostMania)
- Supported specifying clustered Primary Keys
- Supported more options in diagram-based SQL generation
- Automatically set alt text to image in generated document
- Presented "Chart Relationships" in document generation outcome
- Supported storyboard in document generation outcome
- Supported document generation only for master views
- Presented "Chart Relationships" in Project Publisher outcome
- Supported storyboard in Project Publisher outcome
- Supported filtering elements with stereotype when construct matrix
- Supported showing elements count as tooltip in grid
- Supported creating transition between text and term when "Add text as term"
- Supported searching user story
- Supported the generation and display of ID in user story
- Supported opening a wireframe in non-embedded way when being opened from scenario editor
- Storyboard in user story
- Supported the use of constraint in defining guards for state transitions
- Supported connecting dependency to class member
- Supported more formatting properties in stereotype definition
- Supported highlighting preferred diagram type in New Diagram window when create sub-diagram
- Supported inserting action shape to control flow with split resource
- Enhanced the way of adding reference
- Handled model element reference in Excel exporting and importing
- Changed the Print feature from working in embedded window to popup window
- Supported Patch Update launcher
- Special way to activate subscription
