Approach to coding, good/bad

[ichabod801]

In all the specs I have seen written using UML "tools", the author thought that the graphics were enough. It even got as bad as a project were the UML designer/architect stated that the DB schema from the tool was cast in concrete and would never change (to the point that we could not open a defect against the model). Of course it lasted about a month until they had to give in and have a first update. In the end in 18 months we had about 40 updates to the data model.

Any design tool can be used poorly. Out of date comments, incorrect documentation, not putting the time into design, descriptive names leaving out details, and so on. That, in itself, is not a reason to not use that design tool.