Astade

Astade is a specialized tool created to enable users to begin the software development process at model level and generate source code for C and C++ automatically. It can be customized in order to be used with various compilers, and it is indented to provide a complete GUI for software developers.

As a UML tool, this application offers an alternative method of generating source code for your projects, making it possible to avoid writing everything by hand.

Naturally, Astade requires a number of additional components in order to be put to use, such as a C++ compiler and the Unix tools developers are familiar with, such as GNU Make.

The program can also interface with several other solutions, such as wxGlade for GUI development and Doxygen for generating source documentation mixed with interactive class diagrams.

You can find out more about the installation process by reading the guide available on the product’s homepage. Also, it may be a good idea to consult the first-time usage tutorial that is provided in order to avoid potential headaches.

Astade comes equipped with a drawing tool for use case diagrams, component diagrams and sequence diagrams, code generators for C and C++, as well as code generators and frameworks for statecharts (generic, wxWidgets and ACF/ACF++).

After setting up the required components, you should open the Preferences menu and enter the local paths of the various tools that the application needs in order to help you generate source code for your projects.

The complete software package consists of three tools that need to be used separately: the main Astade UML utility, a program intended for drawing graphs and an application for converting trace files to UML diagrams.