Evaluating EA, couple of questions..

[joyce]

Hello everyone, I've just been evaluating EA and somewhere on the web site under system requirements it said something along the lines of "Not tested with XP but should work".

We have to run EA on XP because we have hyperthreaded processors (not supported under other os's) and so far evaluating it I've not seen any problems whatsoever (I'm a near complete novice with UML so I admittedly probably haven't really *worked* the program in all aspects, but nothing jumped out and crashed on me so far   ).

Is that just an outdated statement about XP under system requirements or...?

I'm incredibly excited about what EA can do for us, it looks to be a damn fine product in every respect and lightbulbs are going off constantly while I try it out.

Our company has recently gone far beyond the point where we can do without a CASE tool.

I'm facing the initially steep learning curve of going from no knowledge of UML to working with it and I was wondering if anyone knows of any resources available on the net that show working with UML to design simple projects. (like walkthroughs step by step).  

Reason being that I don't learn very well without doing something practical.

Cheers to anyone who can point me in the right direction.

[fwoolz]

JC,

I run EA under Win XP on the machine I'm using as I type this- works like a charm!  I also use it on Win 2000 (on my laptop) with equal success.

Cheers,
Fred Woolsey

[Tjerk]

Hi JCardinal,

Have you done any ObjectOriented programming? If so, peeking at the example EAP file of Sparx will probably give you some ID.

When you want to have some more, please specify, whether you want to do one or more of the following activities:
- Requirements management;
- System and / or software logical design;
- System and / or software dynamics (interaction) design;
- Traceability;
- Test management;
- GUI design;
- Forward / reverse engineer;
- ..some other activity concerning UML / EA;

Each of these activities ask for different UML notations and EA use. If you are more familiar with OO software processes, you might want to take a look at the forum UML Process (see forum root). There, you will find some discussions on where to start and to continue a complete process.

Greetings,
Tjerk

P.s. worked on XP with EA as well and did not find anything out of the ordinary.

[paul]

UML Distilled (Fowler)  is great and has some examples you could follow in EA.

check out his website: www.martinfowler.com

there are some good resources at:

http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_uml.html#oo_uml_start_here

as well.