Coverage.py reporting and UML tools - what exists already?

[Ricardo Aráoz]

J Peyret wrote:
> I got coverage.py to work after somewhat of a difficult start...
> 
> Hint:  if moving your code from Windows to Linux and if running
> 'coverage.py -r mymodule.py' causes SyntaxError/SyntaxException, the
> 'flip' utility is your friend to deal with removing those nasty \r\n
> newlines that are preventing coverage.py from working.
> 
> ... and I can generate annotated files.  Great, but it would be really
> nice to have an quick overview of untested code.
> 
> One Java tool I've used in the past is Cobertura, which can output its
> coverage reports in html format.
> 
> http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/sample/
> 
> I was wondering if there is anything similar to dress up coverage.py
> annotation files?  Wouldn't seem to be very difficult to html-ize the
> files a bit.  I can probably take a, feeble, stab at it, but I'd
> rather not reinvent any wheels.
> 
> 
> Second question:
> 
> I'd like a basic UML tool to draw up some interaction diagrams
> (Collaboration/Sequence) on some of my hairier pieces of code.  I
> think of it more as documentation/brainstorming diagrams than anything
> else.  I.e. something that helps me remember how things work and can
> help me spot refactoring opportunities.
> 
> Things I don't care about:
> 
> - document most of my code - this is for the truly complex 5-10% of
> interactions
> - generating diagrams from code or code from diagrams
> - static class diagrams
> - descriptions doing the whole UML hog - type declarations,
> stereotypes, etc...
> 
> What I do care about:
> 
> - sketching basic diagrams manually as quickly as possible
> 
> Most of the software I've seen takes great pride in reverse
> engineering or generating code, often of the Java variety.  In fact,
> everything looks dauntingly complex/powerful.  Anybody seen the
> equivalent of an UML/CRC-card aware blackboard?  Something as
> trivially dumb/easy as the early Visio/ABC Flowcharter?
> 
> I've looked at ArgoUML, BoaConstructor and UMLet in the past and
> didn't really like them.  What about Dia?  Looking at UML from a
> Python / post-coding documentation angle, what seems to fit the bill
> best?
> 
> I am on Linux or Windows, using PyDev on Eclipse.
> 
> Cheers

Have you tried StarUML? Worth a look (open source).