Migration procedure from 7.5 to 8.0

[deefer]

Hi
I was wondering whether you can suggest a procedure to check that a model is still valid when migrating from version 7.5 to version 8.0 of EA.

Besides checking manually each element, package and diagram, I was wondering whether there could be a (semi)automatic method (for instance, exporting the model into and xml with both ea versions and check the differences...)

Other suggestions are very welcome...
Thanks
Davide

[Geert Bellekens]

Davide,

I would rather do following:
- Export model to xmi in 7.5
- "upgrade" to 8.0
- Compare model with exported xmi.

Geert

[deefer]

Thanx Geert
how to do that comparison?

[Geert Bellekens]

right click on package/model and choose "Package Control/Compare with XMI file".

Geert

[deefer]

It is funny, but I've tried to export the model with 7.5 and then compare the xmi just exported with the same ea 7.5 open model... the number of differences is remarcable!

• most of them are false positive (text marked different but actually the same)
• other reports that some connections coordinates have been changed
• action pins have a different classified ID
• some block properties' links specifications are missing in the exported xmi

Since my model is quite big, and the number of modifications reported is quite big, I wonder whether this is the most effective method for my original purpose...  :-/

And with version 8.0 the situation is the same...
Thanks
Davide

[beginner]

You might try to check sanity first: Tools/Data Management/Integrity.

Very strange thing, though. I'd expect the insanity to be the same in the exported XMI... What's Paolo's signature: Consistently inconsistent systems don't exist? EA proofs that to be wrong.

b.

[deefer]

Thanx
Yes I have already performed the integrity check and the model repair commands

[Paolo F Cantoni]

You might try to check sanity first: Tools/Data Management/Integrity.

Very strange thing, though. I'd expect the insanity to be the same in the exported XMI... What's Paolo's signature: Consistently inconsistent systems don't exist? EA proofs that to be wrong.

b.

Not quite the right quote...

Inconsistently correct systems DON'T exist.

I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to apply to EA.

Paolo

[beginner]

Yep, sorry for the wrong citation. However I'd say that EA is consistently inconsistent.

b.

[beginner]

It is funny, but I've tried to export the model with 7.5 and then compare the xmi just exported with the same ea 7.5 open model... the number of differences is remarcable!...

I'm just in the same position. When I compare fresh exports I (often!) get lots of errors. Classifiers are not exported. Obviously identical things are marked as being different. Thank god I'm not in the situation to restore from a baseline export yet. It seem to be just scrap. Nothing you can use for collaboration and neither for backup. I'll switch over to database dumps.

brrrr

Yes. I made integrity check beforehand. Whatever these do. Witch craft like XMI, I guess.