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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Auto-generate Scenarios from an Activity Diagr

« on: August 01, 2005, 12:58:02 am »

Many thanks. I will take some time to digest your comments and revisit my model.

All complexity aside, I still see big effeciency gains in having a tool that could auto-generate basic and alternate paths from an Activity Diagram (with your comments they should be more simle paths however). For maintainability purposes alone it would be great if someone could alter their activity diagram and hit the magic button to update the written scenarios. For those people not visually orientated the reverse could be done i.e. update your written scenarios and hit the magic button to generate an activity diagram.

Has anyone exported the XML from an Activity diagram to see how complicated this would be? If there aren't any tools available out there I might give it a try myself.

Thanks again.
Allan

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Suggestions and Requests / Auto-generate Scenarios from an Activity Diagram

« on: July 31, 2005, 06:52:02 pm »

Being new to the EA and associated methodologies, I was wondering if anyone is aware of a tool that will automatically generate written 'scenarios' based on an Activity Diagram?

I have a relatively complex Activity Diagram which I am using in my use-case to write a basic and alternate paths. Because the diagram is so complex, I am initially having troubles writing out the paths. More importantly though,  I see big problems in the future surrounding readability and also maintanability.

Does such a tool exist?

My basic understanding is that XML sits behind these diagrams in EA. How difficult would this feature be to create?

Thanks

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General Board / Does EA have Data Dictionary/Data Catalogue?

« on: May 07, 2007, 11:24:33 pm »

Hi

Our organisation considering EA but the question has been raised about Data Dictionary/Data Catalogue.

Does EA have a built-in data dictionary, or integration with a particular data dictionary product?

Many thanks.

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General Board / Re: Auto-generate Scenarios from an Activity Diagr

« on: August 01, 2005, 02:19:28 am »

Hi Kaneda

No, not code generation. Just plain-text versions of a basic and alternate paths displayed in an Activity Diagram.

Cheers

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General Board / Auto-generate Scenarios from an Activity Diagram

« on: July 31, 2005, 10:14:59 pm »

Hi all...

Sorry for the cross post, but I was hoping to get as many comments as possible.

Being new to EA and associated methodologies, I was wondering if anyone is aware of a tool that can automatically generate written 'scenarios' based on an Activity Diagram?

I have a relatively complex Activity Diagram which I am following to write Basic and Alternate paths to put as scenarios in my use-case. The diagram is quite complex with numerous decision points (which in turn have their own decision points) so I am having troubles writing out the various paths to begin with. More importantly though,  I see big problems surrounding readability of the scenarios and also maintanability for the future whenever the system changes.

Does anyone know of a tool that can translate Activity Diagram flows into a written form?

My basic understanding is that XML sits behind these diagrams in EA. How difficult would this feature be to build into EA?

Thanks