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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Comparing Models

« on: April 21, 2005, 12:35:40 am »

I have always thought this type of policy short-sighted

I don't make the rules where I work! Things will be so much better when I rule the world...

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Suggestions and Requests / Re: Comparing Models

« on: April 21, 2005, 12:34:38 am »

Baselining and Differencing arriving with EA 5.0

That's great news - thanks, KP!

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Suggestions and Requests / Comparing Models

« on: April 20, 2005, 02:32:10 am »

The company I currently work for has a strict review-before-checkin policy for all code and design artifacts. When creating a new EA model from scratch this is not a problem - people can review it, get it approved and then I can go ahead and check it in.

It's a little more tricky when I make changes to an existing EA model, however. Unlike source code, these can't be diffed using any tools that I know of, so I'm currently having to make little notes in a separate document as I work (along the lines of 'renamed x to y' or 'class a now realises interface b'). I can then present the updated model along with this list to the review team, and our process can continue.

What would be great would be if EA could make that list for me (like tracking changes in a Word document, I guess). Now, I know that any automatically-generated list is always going to have a bad signal-to-noise ratio compared to a hand-crafted one, but it's also going to be more accurate.

Alternatively, if anybody has any suggestions of tools that can be used to compare either EAP files directly or any of the outputs generated by EA, feel free to let me know!

Apologies if this has been asked before - I tried doing a forum search for 'compare' and 'comparing' but came up with nothing.

Regards,


Matthew Pass