Bugs in Show differences (Package Baselines)

[larsw]

Hi,

 I'm experiencing a whole range of strange behaviors when I try to use the "Show differences" feature in the Package Baselines... dialog to figure out "leakage" from one top level model to another.

Here is what I'm trying to do:
Given a project with two top level models, I take a package baseline on one of them (the one I want to keep).
After the baselining is done, I remove the other model with all its contents, and open up the Package Baselines... dialog again on the remaining model.
Further, I use Show differences... and as far as I understand how it is supposed to work, the model diagrams and connectors that should show up in the diff report should be those affected by the other top level package I removed.

Observations:
 * If I don't configure "Suppress date created" it can actually report that some elements has changed values for the creation timestamp (!)
* There is a lot of false positives, especially related to a buggy comparison on the text in the Notes attribute on elements. This might be caused by the fact that the Notes attribute is Rich Text and not plain text.
* It can report that it changed a lot of diagrams (visually) and just nudged some connectors a couple of pixels in one direction or the other - nothing is remotely related to the other top level package that I removed.
* It reports that on some Ports (that is inherited from other components) there exists text in the Notes attribute on the current post-baseline elements, but not in the pre-baseline, which is very strange, since I haven't touched anything between the baselining and diff (apart from deleting the other top level package).

Right now, the whole feature is pretty much useless :-/

I'm running EA 11.1.1111

[Geert Bellekens]

I would recommend doing the same test on v12. If you still have the same issues (you probably will) then report it to Sparx.

Geert

[RoyC]

What happens if you have the two models, you take a baseline of one of them, and then do a compare between the baseline and its source model WITHOUT having deleted the other model?

Probably the best thing to do is send a copy of your project to Sparx Support.