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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Bug Submission feature requests

« on: March 06, 2006, 05:05:52 am »

I can only second that. Providing a bug tracking system with tracking id and the ability to identify in what release the problem is solved should be state-of-the-art.

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General Board / Re: EA vs Caliber for Req'ts

« on: March 07, 2006, 02:54:12 am »

Susan,
(I don't know Caliber but Doors)
It depends on how intensively you are  using the RM Tool for your tasks. I suggest to create a list of the tasks you need to fulfill, the work products you need to deliver to other stakeholders and then check what EA gives you here.

Anyway, EA is not a fully-fledged RM Tool but allows you to attach Reqs on any element.  EA has also a good feature called RelationshipMatrix. This is the good part.
The hard part is to organize the Requirements as you'd do in your RM Tool. Managing more than 3000 Requirements in a non-wysiwig style, without the ability to filter or create custom views is not funny.
There is an add-on tool called RaQuest but that is still in a very preliminary state (I checked abt 3 month ago) - you might want to give it a try. It is based on Use Case Modeling.

Bottom line: I wouldn't say it is impossible, but it does require a bunch of work to tailor EA to your needs, I guess.
BTW, I also heard rumors about a link EA<->Doors.

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General Board / Re: Copy elements in Browser

« on: March 12, 2006, 12:54:56 pm »

Thanks, Thomas, works for me.

BTW, the import had some problems because of the line breaks of the posted xml. Is there any possibility to attach files to a post to avoid such problems? Or is there another place to share such things?

Thanks again!

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General Board / Re: Copy elements in Browser

« on: March 12, 2006, 09:23:35 am »

Seems there is room for improvement. Maybe I'm a bit too spoiled here from other tools... (ok, $$$)
Would you dare to share ? - Thanks.

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General Board / Copy elements in Browser

« on: March 11, 2006, 05:06:21 pm »

I wonder how to let's say copy a bunch of classes from one package to another, without  a diagram. The "Paste as new" is always greyed out in this case.
Why - and more important - how ?

Thanks for any hints.

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General Board / Re: Can't select alternate image for <<devic

« on: March 03, 2006, 06:30:57 am »

Per UML spec the Device "is_a" Node, so the <<device>> does not denote a stereotype but rather is a keyword.
The same is true for ExecutionEnvironment.
In fact, both elements do *not* offer to set an alternate image, which I also was looking for.

I don't see a reason for this as <<artifact>> also is a derived element but offers the missing menu.

Hint: You should be able to set a stereotype, and then you can change appearance for these stereotype'd elements in Settings->UML->stereotypes.

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Uml Process / Re: Help with my first Use Case Diagram

« on: March 03, 2006, 09:24:11 am »

Sorry - the right term to search for is "Dear Dr. Use Case"

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Uml Process / Re: Help with my first Use Case Diagram

« on: March 03, 2006, 09:20:34 am »

Derek,
thomaskilian is right (well he is a Guru..).
Anyway, here are just my 2 cents worth to throw in:
The attempts you made in UC Modeling are the usual mistakes developers make when stepping up the HOW to the WHAT. As others said before, you merely have created a functional decomposition rather than the Cockburn-Goal things (or as he said: under-water).
I suggest to read his book, and there are dozens of other good articles on the need to lift the fog.
Search for "Ask Dr. Use Case" , as a starting point.
HTH  

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Uml Process / Re: UML Repository

« on: March 20, 2006, 02:56:16 pm »

Hint: Metamill has direct .mdl import capabilities, and writes XMI.
I also was surprised that on one of my office PCs the .mdl file had an Icon, and a tool called MS Visual Modeler was assigned to it. I have no clue where I have this tool from ?
Anyway, it says its written by Rational for MS in 1998! It only supports Packages and Classes, but that might be sufficient in this case.

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Uml Process / Re: Activity vs Sequence Diagram at the BA level

« on: March 13, 2006, 03:30:57 pm »

I'm also voting for ADs for your task. And as mikewhit said, there *are* differences between the two.
ADs can show parallel execution and related stuff. This is not possible to express in one SD - as the name tells you - it will show just one thread of many possible scenarios.
To show timing details, consider using the Timing Diagram, although they are a bit limited at the moment.

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Uml Process / Re: traceablity troubles

« on: March 03, 2006, 09:38:36 am »

Traceablility is achieved by using Dependencies between elements. You can stereotype them, example:
Realization --<<satisfies>> --> Requirement
Additionally, you might want to look into the SysML profile.

The different views reflect stages of your process. So what is your process? RUP? Make that clear first, then it will become obvious which views to connect with each other. Remember you can use the same diagram/element in different stages of the process.

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Uml Process / Re: about UML and MOF alignment

« on: March 07, 2006, 03:53:55 pm »

Well, the key thing to understand is that these 4 levels are possible levels.  The concept of MOF/UML is that you can describe any level of meta model using your existing descriptions. Hence, UML Infrastructure can be used by MOF to setup a MetaModel. This metamodel can then serve any meaning you want. For UML, it serves as the MetaModel for UML Superstructure, and it also does that for CWM.
See MOF 2.0 Spec Chapter 7, Fig. 7.1 for some details.

The separation between EMOF and CMOF has basically been done to provide a "simple" and a complex MOF.

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Slow execution of vbs

« on: April 02, 2006, 02:33:00 am »

Yep - got it working now.
Startup and shutdown now takes 3 seconds on a 1.7GHz intelM.
Question: Will EA execute all installed Add-in callbacks like
EA_FileOpen if used via Automation?

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Re: Slow execution of vbs

« on: March 20, 2006, 02:46:57 pm »

Thanks for the infos. Looks like I need to buy new HW.
Sigh--

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Slow execution of vbs

« on: March 13, 2006, 02:59:15 pm »

I'm trying to use vbs via WSH for automation from the command line.

Code: [Select]


Dim Rep
set Rep = CreateObject("EA.Repository")

   ''create the repository object
   set rep = CreateObject("EA.Repository")

   ''open an EAP file
   rep.OpenFile("XXX.EAP")

   ''use the Repository in any way required
   DumpModel rep ' as in provided sample code

   ''close the repository and tidy up
   rep.Exit()
   set rep = Nothing

takes about 11 seconds to print out the first package name, and then takes another 5 seconds to close after printing out the last element name.
Is this normal behavior? Where is the delay coming from?
Would it be quicker from within VB or VB.net?