EA and requirements engineering

[warlord]

Hi,
For many years now we have EA Professionnel Edition. Actually, we want to use it now for requirements engineering in order to replace our Word documents.
Please note that we do not yet share any EA projects.
--> Questions
Does anybody have already some experience in this area of EA?
Are there any limitations?
Is it possible to run a search (eg. by requirements status) through the complete project structure and all the projets?

--> Questions about Corporate Edition
Would you recommend that we upgrade our license to the Corporate Edition?
And if yes, is it possible to extend (for example: to add some tables) the DB for its integration in other internal tools?
Where can I receive additional information on the user management in Corporate
Edition?
What is the principle of locking?
Is it possible to set a lock on the diagramms' level?

Many thanks in advance!
Claude

[thomaskilian]

Claude,
there are many threads related to requirements here on this board. Pls. have a look using the Search link.

Regarding upgrade: You need the Corporate license in order to make use of EAs security functions. I can't tell much about that, since I don't make use of it.

[StefanPears]

Claude, depending on your team members and their geografical distibution it might be usefull to work with locks. You can lock one or more elements, a diagram or even one or more packages with its sub-packages and all of the contained elements. Editing with locks can be mandatory or not. In addition working with locks depends on the version control tool you are using.

[warlord]

Is there any version control tool integrated in the EA Corporate Edition?

For your information: my team consists of 8 persons (Business Analysts)

[Bruno.Cossi]

Hi,

EA does not come with a version control built into it, but you can integrate it with a version control tool if you already have one.

Hope this helps!
Bruno

Is there any version control tool integrated in the EA Corporate Edition?

For your information: my team consists of 8 persons (Business Analysts)

[warlord]

We have one EAP file that contains all the diagramms. This file is in the network share folder.
Now I would like to give acces to this file to my colleagues but also I must provide at the same time the ability to lock diagramms or the whole package, if
necessary. How could I do this, if EA does not provide a version control tool?Any ideas, please? We use Visual Source Safe as version control tool in our company.

[Bruno.Cossi]

Sounds like what you need is not full-fledged version control, only ability to work concurrently without stepping on one another's toes. EA certainly can do that, that is what locking is for. And yes, you can lock a particular element, whole package or a diagram.
If you use VSS, you can also integrate EA with it. In that case, each user would check-out the element they want to work with and check it back in once they are done with it.

Hope this helps!
Bruno

We have one EAP file that contains all the diagramms. This file is in the network share folder.
Now I would like to give acces to this file to my colleagues but also I must provide at the same time the ability to lock diagramms or the whole package, if
necessary. How could I do this, if EA does not provide a version control tool?Any ideas, please? We use Visual Source Safe as version control tool in our company.

[warlord]

Is there any setup for VSS integration available?

[Graham_Moir]

Try this

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/WhitePapers/Version_Control.pdf

There may be other white papers that coudl help you too.