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General Board / Re: Tagged Value and Import Requirements from .csv

« on: March 17, 2008, 10:47:49 pm »

Let's suppose that I've a past EA projects with 300 requirements; now I want to add to them 4 tagged values; how can I do this?
Do I have to manually add each tagged value to each 300 requirements?  
This would mean 1.200(4x300) manual operations!

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General Board / Inclusion of Relationship Matrix in documents

« on: February 28, 2008, 10:33:33 pm »

Hi all,
        I’ve read the “Working with the RTF Generator” but I didn’t find the way to include any “Relationship Matrix” into such an automated generated RTF document.  :-/
Is it possible to include a relationship matrix into the document? If yes, how?

Thanks in advance,
Davide

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General Board / multiple choice list as type of tagged value

« on: February 28, 2008, 10:59:34 pm »

Dear all,
      I’ve read the “Predefined Tagged Value Types” section in the EA help but I didn’t find any way to create a tagged value of the type “multiple choice list” (it is similar to “enum” but the former allows multiple selection of predefined value). Is it possible to have an attribute (tagged value) of multiple choice list type? If not I may use a string type.


Thanks in advance,
Davide

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General Board / Handling requirements relatedto multiple contracts

« on: February 28, 2008, 10:44:11 pm »

Hi all,
      I’m in the common situation to manage requirements related to different contracts. Obviously there are some relationships among these requirements; for example they may overlap. How do you suggest to handle these relationships in EA? Is it recommended to use one meta-package (my company) and then a single package for each contract? Or one EA project for each contract?
Obviously the answer should change based on my objectives; I just want to save effort in documenting requirements, realize overlapping requirement to save effort in the development phase.

Thanks in advance,
Davide

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General Board / Re: Problems while Importing/Exporting Requirement

« on: February 12, 2008, 01:19:45 am »

What if I do not have a XMI source file but I've a CSV with columns different from the standard requirement attributes A solution may be to import this CSV file into another requirement tool (acting as a proxy), then from this tool I will generate an XMI file that I will import into EA. Sounds good?  

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General Board / Re: Problems while Importing/Exporting Requirement

« on: February 11, 2008, 02:47:13 pm »

I need to import some reqiurements and according to the documentation I should use the CSV facility. You are talking about XMI, can you please indicate me the documentation where I can learn how to ues XMI to import requirement?
Thanks.

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General Board / Re: Problems while Importing/Exporting Requirement

« on: February 11, 2008, 10:57:28 am »

Sorry   I meant CSV and not CVS.

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General Board / Problems while Importing/Exporting Requirements wi

« on: February 11, 2008, 10:38:04 am »

Hi,

I’m using EA version 7.0.813 and I had significant problem while exporting/importing requirements with extended attributes. :-/ In fact, after exporting/importing requirements, there was no data regarding the “requirements attributes” different from the default ones like “Difficulty” and “Priority”   In other words,
1)
Suppose that I’ve a set of requirements to import, saved in a CVS file, and this file includes a column named “Reviewer comments” (because the old requirement model included such an attribute), how can I import this data inside EA?
2)
Suppose that I’ve defined a new value tag called “Reviewer comments” and I’ve several requirements that include this added attribute, how can I export such requirement (by including also the data related to “Reviewer comments”)?
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able, while defining the CVS Import/Export specification, to select any “my defined tagged values” in the “element field” to Import/Export.
Is it possible that a great tool like EA does not support the importing/exporting of requirements with attributes that are different from the standard ones?  

Thanks,
Davide

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Uml Process / Specifying relations into component diagrams

« on: February 12, 2008, 05:11:10 am »

Hi,
I have to document in a standard formalism (UML 2.1) the software architecture of a system to built. The software architecture is actually well defined and documented in a classical non-standard formalism i.e. PowerPoint  Now, how to translate it into UML2.1? I’ve started using a component diagram but I got difficulties in describing:
1.The middleware: how to describe a bus that interconnects all the components? My idea is to use a component called Middleware that is connected to all the components but it seems pretty weird.
2.The relations: how to describe the relations among components or their relation with the middleware? Some relations are asynchronous, other synchronous, other unidirectional, etc. My Idea is to define my own stereotypes, but again, it seems weird because these types of relations are pretty standard so there may be a related standard formalism.

Thanks for your suggestions,
Davide