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General Board / Re: Linking SA screen to elemnt of EA activity dia

« on: August 12, 2009, 09:24:33 pm »

Karla,
I hope your project is going well. David is correct SA stores all screen elements in the EA database so you can work with them in EA as you   would with any other EA element e.g. trace or dependency relationships. Adding relationships between the elements in EA won't affect SA either.

SA creates a class element in EA for every GUI element you create in SA. This allows you to associate requirements to any of these elements (either in SA via the element dialog or directly in EA).
You can also create site maps in EA by placing screen class elements onto a diagram and placing information flows between them.

With the release of EA 7.5 and the ability to link directly to an attribute in a class you can now create relationships between GUI elements and their associated database field allowing traceability between the two - impact analysis of GUI changes or databases changes becomes much easier.

Anything else let me know or you can contact us directly at [email protected]
Regards
Bryce

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General Board / New 1 stop web shop with bundle discounts

« on: August 19, 2009, 07:07:22 pm »

Just released!

A new one stop web shop with all the Sparx Systems & 3rd party tools plus Atlassian products.

u choose bundles...

u choose the tools and bundle them how you want,
we add the discount

www.catchlimited.com

Regards
The team @ Catch

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General Board / Re: Anybody using Test Management in EA?

« on: August 13, 2009, 07:56:03 pm »

Jan,

Enterprise Tester is a web based test management tool that can be run on it's own without EA or JIRA. So you don't need either to be able to use the tool.

If you were to use EA-ET-JIRA as an end-to-end solution then yes you would need to purchase licenses of each.

ET has a personal license which allows you one named user for approx $300 USD and JIRA has a free personal license. So you could create an end-to-end solution for approx $600 for a single user.

For a small organisation you would most likely go for a 5 licenses of EA 5 user license of ET 1500USD and a 5 user JIRA license 1200USD
which would allow you to run a full end to end for approximately $4,500USD. This solution could be compared to a Rational end-to-end but we all know it wouldn't be anywhere near this price.

Now ET has basic defect tracking capability build it so you could just purchase EA-ET as an option to work with removing the JIRA cost.

The key for us is that EA is a fantastic tool for Architecture, Analysis and Design but is not a specialist issue management or test management tool. By combining the 3 tools you get specialist tools is each area and an end-to-end solution allowing traceability across elements while also improving your SDLC reuse, saving costs.
E.g. analysis we have done shows that the EA-ET auto generation of test scripts will give approximate savings of 4% as a minimum on your total project cost i.e. a $100,000 project will have savings of $4,000 (which more than pays for the ET licence cost)

Hopefully this answers some of your questions?
Bryce
  

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General Board / Re: Anybody using Test Management in EA?

« on: August 12, 2009, 09:10:14 pm »

We built Enterprise Tester because we felt that the EA capabilities in testing were good but we couldn't easily get the statistics you are speaking of or run multiple test cycles using the same generated EA scripts. Additionally, most organisations have an issue management tool that is used across a wider audience so one of our aims was to allow them to utilise their pre-existing issue management tool and pass defects to it.

"And how about integration of other tools? If we see that it is not everything possible with EA, that we might choose Jira or Trac e.g. I saw Enterprise Tester which is even more expensive than EA itself."

This is an interesting comment because ET is a web based tool that operates a concurrent user licensing system so the per user pricing is about the same price as a concurrent EA license and cheaper that other test management tools that have less functionality.

Another of our aims was to create a world leading 'tool chain' that provides comparable functionality to HP Quality Centre or the Rational tool sets but at 10% the cost - as Sparx have done. The combination of EA-ET-JIRA or ET-JIRA achieves this.

The team here would be interested in any thoughts you have around ET.

Thanks and regards
Bryce

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General Board / Enterprise Tester v1.3 just released

« on: July 10, 2009, 07:03:02 pm »

Hi all,

Enterprise Tester v1.3 has just been release today. This release allows importing and exporting from .csv files to occur.

For further information have a look at the following link. http://www.enterprisetester.com/index.php?page=news_press

Regards
Bryce

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General Board / Re: EA 7.5 and Screen Architect

« on: June 04, 2009, 09:46:45 pm »

Graham,

Good to hear the issue has been resolved.
Yes we have been working on Screen Architect but it has been a delayed with the release of Enterprise Tester and the recent acquistion of Cadeo for EA/QC integration has ment we are making a push to get that upgraded and a new version released.

Sorry for the delay, we are keen to add enhancements to it sooner than later.
Bryce

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General Board / Re: EA 7.5 and Screen Architect

« on: May 22, 2009, 04:36:46 am »

Graham,

Have you logged this issue? We have tested and internally our staff are using Screen Architect with the latest build with no problems.

I'll get the technical team to contact you to try and find out more information and resolve your issue.
I'd guess that something else is going on here.
Bryce

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General Board / Re: EA 7.5 and Screen Architect

« on: March 02, 2009, 12:34:29 pm »

Hello,
We have just released a new version of Screen Architect which has major speed improvements and some bug fixes. We have performed speed tests and it looks to be 3 -5 times quicker than the previous release.

We can confirm that we have tested Screen Architect with 7.5 and have raised an issue with Sparx HQ to address prior to 7.5 full release.
1. Screenshots are not displaying in the RTF document generation.

This is being addressed and should be fixed prior to full release.

We have also been busy working on a new plug-in -
Enterprise Tester (ET) www.enterprisetester.com

ET integrates with Enterprise Architect and auto generates test scripts from use cases and scenarios.  ET then integrates with JIRA (from Atlassian) to pass issues to it. This allows end-to-end integration from requirements through test management to defect tracking.

Bryce

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General Board / Re: Enterprise Tester version 1.1 just released!

« on: June 04, 2009, 07:09:40 pm »

We have just released Enterprise Tester v1.2 - Personal edition.

You can now purchase a single user license of Enterprise Tester for $395 USD. Additionally, we still have our 20% off early adoptor special until the end of July.

http://www.enterprisetester.com/index.php?page=download to download a 30 trial or have a go with the online demo site
Bryce

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General Board / Re: Enterprise Tester version 1.1 just released!

« on: May 10, 2009, 06:38:57 am »

Kevin,

Yes, the execution grid shows all test steps for the selected test script being executed.

The great thing about this one is you can see all steps, attach documents or images to the step and see if there are any other attachments on the same step. Additionally, the grid allows you to log and view all issues associated with the step and automatically populates the issue with the step information saving the tester time and allowing them to concentrate on what is actually going wrong instead of recording the base information.

We have also continued the UML class / object concept & reuse through to the testing side by allowing users to create test scripts and by dragging and dropping them into an execution plan a execution script (an instance of a test script) is created. This facilitates reuse and allows script updates to occur in all instances of the execution scripts by simply updating the test script contained in the testers test library. With the EA integration we auto generate the test scripts again saving test analysis valuable time and allowing traceability between the UML model and test scripts.

Bryce

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General Board / Enterprise Tester version 1.1 just released!

« on: May 09, 2009, 06:06:33 am »

Check out the new release of Enterprise Tester
Heaps of new features including dashboards, report templates and a new and improved execution grid.

www.enterprisetester.com

or to have a look at the online demo

http://demo.enterprisetester.com/enterprisetester
username: demo
password: password

Any feedback you have would be appreciated
Thanks
Bryce & the team at Catch

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General Board / Re: Visio File Import

« on: March 18, 2009, 06:03:23 pm »

I haven't been able to find it on the sparxsystems.com site but have uploaded it to the Sparx Systems New Zealand site under the following URL

http://www.catch.net.nz/sparxsystems/uploads/File/VisioImporter.exe

I hope this helps, let me know if you need anything else
Regards
Bryce

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General Board / Screen Architect wins Jolt Productivity Award

« on: March 18, 2009, 05:50:09 pm »

Hi,

some great news the Screen Architect plug-in for EA was award a Jolt productivity award in the design and Modeling tools category.

You can read more at www.screenarchitect.com

Thanks for all your support and we look forward to continuing to improve the product.

Bryce

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General Board / New Testing Add-in Enterprise Tester Released

« on: January 14, 2009, 07:20:44 pm »

We have just released a Beta version of Enterprise Tester

www.enterprisetester.com

It is web based and allows you to auto generate test cases from your use cases and scenarios, import requirements and show traceability.

In addition, if you want to, we have build a real time link to the popular Altassian defect tracker Jira so you can now have an end-to-end solution EA-ET-JIRA for a fraction of the cost of other tools in the market.

Download the beta version and send us your feedback!

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General Board / Enterprise Architecture Survey Released

« on: January 14, 2009, 04:34:59 pm »

We have just lauched the first truely global Enterprise Architecture Survey

www.architecturesurvey.com

Be a part of the survey and bench mark your organisation against others in your industry and gain valuble insights as to where and how you can reduce costs, save time and improve your organisations quality of output.

Thank you and we look forward to a truely global view of the comparison of tools, methodologies and capabilities!