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General Board / RaQuest: Initial questions from a 1st-time user

« on: April 04, 2005, 01:08:29 pm »

Hi,

I've downloaded the trial version of v2 of RaQuest and successfully integrated it with my purchased copy of Enterprise Architect, and spent a couple hours (so far) playing with it.

I thought I'd document some questions/issues here in order to generate discussion.

First off, over-all, I like what I've seen so far, but:
- the Help file could use some (English-as-a-first-language) polishing in some places, but it could also use a chapter related to describing the workflow and defining the dividing line between the 2 tools.  I do realize that documentation costs can be a significant percentage of development costs and that a young product may not be fully documented.

- As a mid-sized company with large-company software product documentation requirements, I could really use some recommendations on how to organize my requirements.  At this point, I guess it'll have to be a matter of experimentation.  To start I'm planning on creating packages which mimic our Product Management structure.

- I was able to figure out how to create new Requirements Types (Business & Feature) and can use them.  However, when I did a 'Generate UseCases', it generated Use Cases for EVERY requirement that I entered.  I would like a discuss/recommendation on what should actually be happening here.  My thought is that it would be nice to be able to specify a Requirement Type (eg. Feature) as a filter for generating Use Cases.

- Having created a set of requirements in one (*.EAP) database, I wanted to move (or copy) them to another (learning) database.  How do I do that ?

- Which brings me to a follow-up question: How can I share requirements between projects / products ?  eg. "In the event of ...x..., a record will be written to a centralized logging facility." would be used in MANY places.

- Suggestion to user interface: when looking at the main screen which shows the tree hierarchy of requirements on the left and 'All Requirements' on the right, it would be nice if selecting a row on one side would also automatically select the same row on the other side (and visa versa).

- Also, it would be nice if (in the list of All Requirements), the Type, Priority, Risk, Difficulty, and Stability columns were all modifyable like the Status column is.

As I'm preparing for a demo to my team on 12-Apr-2005, I'm sure I'll have other questions ...  

Thanks,
Steven.

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Uml Process / How deep do (we) analysts model ?

« on: May 30, 2005, 08:37:15 am »

Hi all,

I was reviewing discussions posted and started to read the one about "Sequence Diagrams and .Net" (http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=UMLPRO;action=display;num=1116873337) when a thought occurred to me:

At what point DOES modeling stop and development begin ?

I realize that the answer depends on what your position in an organization is, and the size of the team you are in.  I know the range CAN go from 1 person who will just dive into development through to a team of analysts each doing high-level modeling a portion of a project that will be given to a development team to drive down further.  I know that in order to generate code, you need to drill down to the most detailed levels.

But my question is really more "What is being done in organizations today?"

Is there some way this posting could be converted to a Survey ?  Has a survey like this already been done ?

I'm interested in the answers because I'd like to know what tool-independent lessons (if any) people have learned from trying to generate source code from their models.

Thanks,
Steven.