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Some of the Friends of Astah
As a 'bug magnet' Lisa uses Mind Maps in her everyday work and in published writing. Lisa is co-author of the book "Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams" (with Janet Gregory) and a contributor to the book "Beautiful Testing".
Kent Beck - USA
• Three Rivers Institute• co-author of "Extreme Programming Explaind: Embrace Change"
Mind Maps engage the whole brain in thinking, both in creation and review. This is the mind map I wrote for the 2nd edition of my book.
I run training programs and we use Astah in the classes. Our curriculum includes "Introduction to UML" where we teach UML notations, "Approach to Requirements Definition using UML" that we teach the procedure of hearing and organizing the requirements from clients using Astah. In other classes, we draw Flowcharts and ER Diagrams with Astah for "Introduction to Algorithms" and "Introduction to DB" that have been very useful for our classes.
I was in Mamezou Co, Ltd. for six years and Astah has been a must-have-tool for me from when it used to be called "JUDE". I have always used Astah to draw diagrams for my articles for the JavaWorld magazine and the IT Architect. Now I draw ER diagrams with it for my work and its very useful. Astah's usability was improved dynamically at version 6.2 and it is admirable how Astah never stops evolving like that.
I enjoy modeling abstract concepts and relationships, especially using UML. Have used a myriad of UML tools but found Astah to be very lightweight, sufficiently complete, and great for modeling at an abstract-level without being implementation-specific.
I have used several UML tools since mid-90's from RationalRose to EA, but all seems to be not quite enough. Every tool has its quirk and you need to know a way to handle them. To write my UML introduction book, I used Astah for figures and practices as it's a well-known UML tool and it has a free edition that readers can use. Astah seems to have been much refined overall over these years.
Haim Michael has more than 15 years of experience in software development and has taught academic and professional courses on UML, Java, Java EE, .NET, Scala, PHP, HTML5, Android and other mobile development topics in Israel and in India. He is also the founder of www.abelski.com; through which people all around the world can enjoy a huge range of free courses about various advance software technologies.
I love Astah for UML features of course and also its ability to draw other diagrams other than UML and integrate them all. Astah can be utilized for various purposes for any ideas. I also love all the developers of Astah!
I use Astah mainly for my projects with a teacher here at UNESP. I'm developing a system for image processing. That project is in its first steps now, but for every new feature that I include, first I consult the UML diagram from Astah to then make the necessary changes.
Carmen Brando - France
•PhD Student: Geographic Information ScienceIn my research work, I have always chosen UML to design conceptual models when developing my prototypes. In particular, for my PhD work, I'm developing my models (sequence, use case, and classes) using Astah. I was very satisfied by Astah specially because I spent quite some time trying several UML design tools before I found Astah.
I have a PhD in Operation Management, and am a professor of software
engineering in the Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná in the city of the Cornélio Procópio, brazil. Besides publishing in the field of of software production process, orginization, and creation, I also have an Introduction to Software Engineering blog.
Martin Aarnoudse age 21 live in Dirksland (The Netherlands) he works as a Delphi system engineer in the container transport industry. Martin also has a personal company called JMAdesign, where he develops websites for many different types of customers. Martin's bachelor is in IT, he continues to study all things technology related..
My first experience with Astah was on the iPad. I instantly felt at home with the intuitive interface. When I learned shortly afterward about the desktop application I was delighted that I could directly import my preliminary designs for refinement. At this point it has replaced my default modeling tool. I plan to use it extensively in the coming months during development of my capstone project for my Masters in Software Engineering, a framework and API for multi-agent machine learning research. The developers of Astah were also very responsive and gracious when I contacted them about the product. Overall, I couldn't be happier so far!
John Greenhow - Australia
• Technical architect at an investment bankAstah UML Pad really helps because I'm always short of time and it's hard to get many contiguous hours in front of the computer for project
work. Instead, I can use Astah to progress my project on the train or even when I'm baby-sitting! This lets me be clear on my designs so that I can make efficient use of 'coding time', and even though I'm building fast, I can keep code quality to a maximum because I've had the chance to think it through properly beforehand.
I found Astah UML really impressive. My practice of listing requirements using a mind-map, then drilling down with class and sequence diagrams as system design proposals and then let the design evolve as part of scrum activities. I found Astah worked very well my style of delivery (especially with Agile).
I am a fan of Java and JVM Architectures. Astah has helped me in my projects many times.I found it a very powerful and easy to use tool in comparison to other programs.
I have worked for more than five years with collaborative project management and development for internet business and nonprofit organizations and I have been using Astah in the last three years to manage most of these projects because it provides a unique quality for managing and sharing many stages of the applications from only one place.
I have spent so much time looking for a UML tool that suits my needs and runs on different platforms (especially Linux). When I first tried Astah, I felt immediately comfortable with it, so I tested Astah with some real-life models. I have a rather complete set of diagrams that bring other UML tools to their limits, especially when it comes to sequence diagrams. What surprised me was that creating sequence diagrams in Astah feels so "natural", especially the versatile message numbering. This convinced me to use Astah, which is now my UML tool of choice.
Robert Hanmer - USA
• Architect, author of "Patterns for Fault Tolerant Software"• Board of Hillside Group
I'm very impressed with its ease of use and how this has carried into aides to keep diagrams tidy. Astah was great to quickly create needed UML for a new book project.
Jose Rodrigues - Brazil
• Software Engineering lecturer at Rio de Janeiro Catholic University• Executive-Director of GPE Ltd
• Personal Website
I have been using Astah for many years. Actually, I started with JUDE. Astah is a very simple and complete tool, yet easy to use. I have successfully recommend it to my students for a long time.
I've know Astah from a time when it was called JUDE. As a Mac user I tried out many UML modeling tools, functionality and ease of use are very important to me. I have chosen Astah because it offers all UML diagrams you need for modeling software, it also supports ERDs, and diagramming tools that others often do not. Astah is also very intuitive to learn. Furthermore, it runs on different operating systems - including OS X. I will use Astah for all my tutorials which I publish from time to time on my website. Thank you guys!
Milan Smiesko - Slovak Republic
• Head of the collaboration and BI factory within Accenture (Technology Solutions)• System Analyst at Avanade
I've been working with MS Visio, Rational Rose, Together, Sparx Enterprise Architect and Visual Studio UML support tools on many projects. Although none of those have iPad / other tablet platform support yet as far as I know. I'm "old-school" little bit, so I prefer to draft my architecture/designs on a paper and then transform it to the regular UML/case tool. So this Astah UML Pad tool makes me really happy - it gives me the freedom to make my designs electronically wherever and whenever I feel creative at that moment. And with desktop version I will be able now to easily just transfer my drafts to the desktop for finalizations and code generating purposes - this is really great!
I have set Astah, and previous versions of JUDE, as the standard modeling tool used for teaching at both the Queensland University of Technology and the University of Liverpool. It is a simple and lightweight tool that makes it easier for students to create and modify UML diagrams while learning OO analysis and design.
Open-Source Projects
Astah is proud to help support the following open source projects and their developers by providing free licesnes of Astah.
PerfectJpattern is a framework and catalog of perfectionated and componentized Java Design Patterns.
Giovanni Azua (project owner)-Switzerland
In my years of experience in the software development industry, there has always been a recurrent question. The question is which tool shall the team use to prototype, discuss or document a class design. The tool that has always best answered that question is JUDE, and now Astah UML. I am happy to recommend this tool which I have always used either in the job or in my graduate studies or for my Design Patterns open source project. JUDE/Astah is simply a must have in any professional software development environment.
Cyclos software provides innovative and secure ways to encourage purchasing power within a specific community or region.
Hugo van der Zee (IT Manager at Social Trade Organization)-Brazil
Hugo van der Zee is responsible for the development of the Open Source on-line banking software Cyclos. Cyclos is a large project with many modules and therefore a good modeling tool is very important. We used JUDE (Astah's former name till October, 2009) in the past and we are impressed to see how it has evolved.
Java application for conversion from Astah Professional UML Activity Diagram to Test Cases.
Ireneusz Pastusiak (project owner)-Poland
Astah is a great UML modeling tool - powerful and user-friendly. Its support for XMI file format inspired me to start UML2TC, an open source project intended to provide means to create Test Cases directly from UML Activity Diagrams.
KaleidoFoundry is a simple and extensible java integration framework based on JDK 6 and java EE 5 & 6 APIs.
Jerome Raduget (project owner) -France
I looked and tested many UML tools, open-source and commercial. I don't need to look anymore, I found Astah UML! It is really a great tool, user friendly, with rich functionalities and lightweight. I often use it for reverse engenering, to maintain my class models, and in order to export diagrams to build good looking documents. You can find some of the diagrams on my open source project kaleido-foundry.
