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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: Jans on March 03, 2005, 07:18:25 am

Title: Use Case
Post by: Jans on March 03, 2005, 07:18:25 am

Hello friends...
i badly need a help..i am in a migration project ie. from (VB and COBOL batch programs) to J2EE & Oracle.
My question is that..can i use EA to automatically generate USE CASE DIAGRAM by reverse engineering process of going thorugh the VB code.

Awaiting for reply..

Thanks and Regards
Jans

Title: Re: Use Case
Post by: Bruno.Cossi on March 03, 2005, 10:40:32 am

Hello Jans,

you can reverse engineer a class diagram but not a use case diagram. Use Cases represent the users interaction with the system and are very non-technical, they can be automatically built based on the code.
Migrating from COBOL to J2EE is going to be painful with the diagrams or without, I am sorry to say :-)

Bruno

Title: Re: Use Case
Post by: Jans on March 04, 2005, 05:08:44 am

Thanks Bruno..
for the prompt reply....
can u suggest me what will be the best practice to develop USE CASE Diagram if i have a Business Process Model in hand as well as the analysis document of the source code of the source system. i.e. Vb and COBOL.
Thanks again....

awaiting reply

Jans

Title: Re: Use Case
Post by: RonaldTrivera on March 05, 2005, 05:54:01 am

Jans,

The business process diagram can help you indentify the begin to end processes which are implemented in the system these can be used to define the usecases.

regards,
Ronald