tools to build design of application

Hello, All!

It's usual to make a design of application using pencil and paper list,
where you can draw functional block and describe every C/C++ function
specifications. It's true for small projects, I guess.

But what are the good tools helping to manage full-cycle design of big
application? What can you recommend? It might be open-source, free,
commercial product? Or may be there are other techniques to fulfil the
software design before start coding?

Thanks.

With best regards, Roman Mashak. E-mail: mrv@xxxxxxxx


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