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General Board / Re: model view searches

« on: November 29, 2008, 04:35:21 pm »

Take a look at the Relationship Traceability Matrix feature... just what you are looking for...

The help is pretty clear on how to use it too...

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General Board / Re: owner field - tasks list and issues list

« on: November 09, 2008, 02:37:57 pm »

Yes... Settings/People...
The help files are pretty good about understanding roles... etc.

HTH,

David

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Uml Process / Re: relation between use cases

« on: October 16, 2008, 02:46:21 pm »

Also, there is an association stereotype called "precede." However I think it is important to use different use case diagrams to represent different views...

Generally, you do NOT use use case diagram to represent "flow". Attempting to show multiple types of associations between use cases on the same diagram may become too busy and actually confuse the relationships your trying to express.

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Uml Process / Re: Linking use case scenario objects on a diagram

« on: October 16, 2008, 02:40:35 pm »

I use an activity diagram to describe the flow of the use case with each pathway through the activity diagram representing a possible scenario...

I further use color coding to represent the basic path (leading to the successful outcome), alternate paths (additional paths outside of the basic path that also lead to a successful outcome), and exception paths (ones that do NOT lead to a successful outcome.)

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Uml Process / Re: Use Case: Use extension points in other diagra

« on: September 24, 2008, 12:42:06 am »

A sequence diagram shows a specific pathway (scenario) through a use case, but a use case should describe a complete set of interactions covering many different pathways (alternate paths leading to success, exception paths leading to failure, etc.)

Then for extension points in an activity diagram I create an action or activity to represent the entry point into the flow.

If you have extension points, by definition you have more than one pathway, and thus the sequence diagram is NOT suitable.

Use a sequence diagram to map a SPECIFIC scenario (one pathway)

Hope that helps...

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Uml Process / Re: Help me with process...

« on: August 28, 2008, 11:35:56 am »

The use case is the requirement?!!! Good luck with that!

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Uml Process / Re: Extends or Uses relationship

« on: July 16, 2008, 11:16:07 am »

I think this is an example of classic miss-use-cases...

You might consider defining test cases, but this is not the purpose or scope level of use cases.

No offense, but you really need to understand the concept of a business and system use case.

Would recommend ANY books by Invar Jacobson (father of use cases) and also most use case books of the 3 amigo series are excellent.

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Uml Process / Re: Reducing complexity in Use-Case-diagrams

« on: July 16, 2008, 11:59:59 am »

Ummmm (voice of experience here) you have WAY too many use cases...

I am currently working on a financial membership application for the NY.. and NA.. system that has 28 use cases total and only have 3 includes and 1 extend relationship.

It really sounds like your UCs are too small in their scope. Remember a system use case's scope should describe an interaction with the system that accomplishes something that has value to the business.

A good test is to ask yourself if after I completed the use case, would I be able to get up and go to lunch feeling that I accomplished something of value to the business...

Example: Manage Task Assignments. Define the Task Game Plan, etc. (actual UCs that use the system to accomplish the business process of managing member applications)

Hope that helps...

I would recommend any of the 3 Amigo series of books on Use Cases.

David

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Uml Process / Re: How to express CRUD permissions within UML?

« on: July 16, 2008, 11:28:42 am »

I am currently re-engineering the requirements, domain model, and use cases for a financial system that integrates functionality from two legacy systems (NY.. and NA..)

Remember, that the wireframes are a SOLUTION to the set of REQUIREMENTS you are trying to specify.

My approach is to basically create business domain model and the use case catalog (do some business level analysis to understand WHAY the solution solves.)

Then generalize out from the solution WHAT the business features of the system are, research and determine what the business rules are (HARD PART, as the rules can be implemented as constraints on the domain model, UI features, and of course CODE).

Trace the Business Features s and the Business Rules to the UCs, Document the flows, and then abstract out the high level functional requirements (what has to be accomplished), then specify the low level and UI abstracted requirements (e.g., what features the UI has to provide to support the HLFRs), rinse and repeat.

Hope that helps a little. Re-engineering requirements for a system is ALWAYS a battle to specify the requirements in enough detail that they are specific to describe what needs to be built (existing solution) but do NOT contain design choices specfied as requirements.

Example: Instead of saying something about the UI providing check boxes for selecting records, generalize it into something like...

UI will provide the capability for the user to indicate rows selected for printing....

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New to Add-Ins... Using MS VS.Net 2005 (using

« on: March 11, 2008, 01:16:14 pm »

Thanks for the help... but I can't seem to get the DLL to register successfully?

First I was getting an error when my registration path to the DLL contained an embedded space (C:\Documents and Settings\...) I moved the project to another directory without embedded spaces and rebuilt.

Then regsvr ...pathname\{DLLName}.dll and then got this error message:

...dll was loaded, but the DLLRegisterServer entry point was not found. This file can not be registered....

I am using XP btw,

Gonna take a break and read some Vogan poetry to get over this lack of nausea...

OtherDavid

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: New to Add-Ins... Using MS VS.Net 2005 (using

« on: March 10, 2008, 03:38:39 pm »

Hey Midnight!

Took me awhile to find my towel!

This is what I have done so far...

1.) I grabbed the zipfile from the website for the "CS_AddinFramework" example (it's in C#, but I figured if I could get this working, I could figure it out for VB) and extracted it... converted it to 2005 using the VS wizard and compiled it with no problems...

2.) Added the Reg key value for the Add-In "CS_AddinFramework.Main"

3.) Configured VS 2005 (Express) using the notes for VS2003...
Started debugging (F5) after setting a breakpoint in the main class...

4.) EA loads.... displays menus... but the add-in does not start running in the debug window...

IF I open the add-in manager the add-in is listed, but the status entry says ''Error-Missing"...

So SOME success, but not a lot!

Other, Other David

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / New to Add-Ins... Using MS VS.Net 2005 (using VB)

« on: March 10, 2008, 05:22:42 am »

Could anyone point me to getting a "Hello-World" project/environment setup for an EA Add-In... the online help files don't seem to tell me enough, or I am too in-experienced...

Thanks,

David