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General Board / Use Cases

« on: August 03, 2006, 03:28:22 am »

Does anyone have any experience of introducing users to the concept of use cases?

Here we tend to define requirements using EA with our users and put together a business process model based on that.

Generally people seem OK with that, but there is a lot more information about the final system that is then put in the use cases.

By the time we have taken people through the Business Process model, though, it  seems as though much of the information that business users would be interested in has already been covered.

Are we putting too much information in the Business process model? What model structure do other people use to support the initial analysis with business users?

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General Board / Testing

« on: August 03, 2006, 02:39:53 am »

Does anyone have any experience of using EA to support testing?

I realise that EA can generate test scripts, but it is not something we have tried at my organisation.

I am keen to find out what approach people have taken to testing e.g. unit testing, integration testing, and User Acceptance testing.

For instance, is it better to use test cases or to create test conditions directly against elements of the system design e.g. any components or classes?

Thanks.

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General Board / Use Of EA

« on: July 14, 2006, 02:12:53 am »

I work for a retail company that has been using EA for a couple of years now.

We use EA here in our IT Department to put together process and system designs. These designs are then signed off by the Business and various review bodies in IT at the end of the design phase of our projects.

We would be interested in pushing forward our use of EA, possibly using it for things such as testing and code generation.

Before we decide an approach for our use of EA, though, we would be interested to hear how other companies have been using EA.

Does anyone know (or work for) a company who is currently using EA and would be willing to talk to us about their experiences of the product?

It would be ideal if they were based in the North West of England, but any information that anyone can provide about how EA has worked for them would be gratefully received.

Many thanks.  

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Automation Interface, Add-Ins and Tools / Interface to Legacy Systems

« on: August 17, 2006, 03:56:58 am »

Does anyone have any experience of trying to model a Legacy System using EA?

The systems I am trying to model are a mixture of (mainframe based) Assembler and COBOL.

Looking at the Rational website, I notice they have an article which deals with "Automated Modelling of Legacy Systems Using the UML"- this talks about using a "Rational Rose COBOL Add-in" which will "abstract the legacy system in a model".

Is there a similar add in for EA?

If not, has anyone else any advice regarding the best way to go about this?