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General Board / Some question about EA multi user support

« on: December 29, 2002, 02:06:49 am »

1.Are there locking facilities that stop two or more users trying to modify part of the model at the same time?

2.What is locked when a diagram is opened, the diagram only or the diagram and all of it contents?

3.Does the tool allow teams of users simultaneous access to the system? Are access control conflicts automatically managed.

4.Can you specify that certain users only have "read" but not "update" access to repository information? For example, you may want to allow quality assurance staff to browse models, but not modify them.

5.Are there facilities to apply version control to the model? Are there facilities to create a "baseline" of the model? Baselines are useful to create a "snapshot" of the model at key points in the development cycle.

6.How scalable is EA? Are there any limits to the number of concurrent users or size or number of models that can be created?

7.Does the multi-user model avoid time consuming and error prone model merging?

8.Does the tool avoid the need to artificially segment the model, duplicating information?

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General Board / Some question about EA

« on: December 28, 2002, 01:45:36 pm »

1-Does the EA provide "as-you-go" checking e.g. to disallow illegal symbol connections?

2-Is the user interface customisable? Can you add your own buttons, menus, icons etc. and bind these to actions or commands?

3-Are facilities provided to manage large diagrams? E.g. filters, diagram panners, search facilities etc.

4-If a selected navigation finds no destination, can the tool automatically create an empty or partially filled diagram or table?

5-What repository browsing facilities are there? Do these facilities encourage the reuse of class information?

6-What technology is used for the repository? Is it a commercially available product, or technology proprietary to the tool vendor?

7-Is there an API for the repository? Is this specific to the repository technology e.g. native SQL, or does it provide a higher level of abstraction?

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General Board / Pls help me

« on: December 27, 2002, 01:32:05 pm »

I have a research in evaluating the Enterprise Architect CASE tool.
So, Can any body help me to answer some questions about it !!