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General Board / Re: Extracting entry points into reports

« on: March 15, 2012, 04:51:44 am »

After an hour of looking through the manual (useless) and trying on my own I am simply NAMING an alternate or Exception branches with the number of the Main Scenario step from which they branched...

Ex

Basic Path   Accomplish something
1.
2.
3.

Alternate  2a. Accomplish something else

etc etc
 

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General Board / Extracting entry points into reports

« on: March 15, 2012, 04:10:44 am »

Hi

This is my first time using the structured scenario functionality offered by EA ( I am used to simply managing the flows myself). So, I have used the structured scenarios and created a basic and several alternate paths. On the Structured Scenario tab of the use case the entry point for each alternate flow is shown. When you go into the alternate flows though, instead of numbering from the entry point (say 3a) it starts from 1

So, I run my report which pulls out the structured scenario as
"Use Case Scenarios
scenario >

{ElemScenario.Scenario}    {ElemScenario.Type}
{ElemScenario.Notes}
      structured scenarios >
>>>>>      {Scenario_Structured.Step} {Scenario_Structured.Action}  
      < structured scenarios

      < scenario"

And the output looks like

Basic Path    Basic Path
1   User navigates toProgram  home page
2   System displays relevant contextual data as well as two text search boxes (Organization/Facility Name and Postal Code) with search buttons. A "More Search Options" link is also shown  
3   The user enters data into one or the other text box and selects search  
4   The system displays the Facility Result Listing Page with facilities matching the query attributes  
      
      

No search criteria specified    Alternate
      
1   User enters no search criteria and selects "Search"  
2   The system displays a warning that search criteria must be specified (?? Is this what the client wants?? Today the system simply returns no results..)  

Note that there is no entry point noted in the output and I cannot find the database field which corresponds to "Entry Point Step" on the Structured Scenario tab of the Use Case???

In this example, I would want the entry point "3a" displayed just before the "Alternate Path" text

How can I display the entry points in a report without resorting to manually drafting the scenarios myself??

 

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General Board / Re: Linking requirements in the matrix

« on: February 07, 2012, 02:33:52 am »

Bingo

That was it..... Can you add this to the online help as a "head's up"

Thanks

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General Board / Linking requirements in the matrix

« on: January 24, 2012, 04:26:00 am »

Hi All

I am in the midst of creating a Vision document which should contain only high-level business needs/requirements. In holding several JAD sessions I elicied both business and functional/non functional requirements.
To organize this I have created a series of packages containing high-level business requirements. I then created a master package containing functional/non functional requirements.

'K so far???

I then open the Relationship Matrix and try and create links between functional/non-functional requirements that "map" to the parent, high-level requirement. When I click on the "intersection cell" in the Relation Matrix between these Requirements all I get is a greyed out "Create Relationship" and I cannot create anything....

I have done this before in V7.5 but cannot seem to do this now? I am running version 9.2.921 using a shared key and a local .EAP file

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General Board / Re: Simple Requirements Reporting Question

« on: January 06, 2012, 01:34:49 am »

Thanks, Phil!

PT

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General Board / Simple Requirements Reporting Question

« on: January 05, 2012, 07:11:26 am »

Hi,

I have been away from EA for 18 months and am "re-wrapping" my head around reporting and requirements. Before I get to far into modeling requirements I want to make sure the reporting capabilities are in place.

Here is my question:

I use two types of "connectors" in any requirements models; "realizes" and "aggregation/composition" . The former is used when something like a use case "realizes" an original client requirement. The latter connector I use when a high-level requirement can be broken down into smaller, more specific ones. Diagramatically it looks great but reporting on this is a bugger.

The requirement element has a "Realizes" field which I can report on in RTF but how does one report (in RTF) on the relationship between those requirements where aggregation connectors are used?

Why do I care about this?Essentially, I want to produce a report that I can run at a root requirements package level which will run through all sub packages and pull out the requirements, their attributes and relationships in one shot.

Another way of saying this.... I would like to show, in an exported document, what the impact of changing Reqt X would be assuming it is "realized" by something else or is a "parent" or "child" in an aggregation/composition relationship.

 

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General Board / Domain modeling and a dictionary

« on: November 24, 2011, 01:33:09 am »

Hi All

I am preparing to do some domain modeling within EA for a client. The last time I used EA was version 7.5.

I have not taken a close look but it seems that EA allows you to define the graphical domain model ( great) but I could not find where a domain dictionary is defined. In a separate tool I was using they had no domain model diagrams but they did have a dictionary where you could define terms. The bonus of this was that, when you were defining Use Cases and you referred to a dictionary entry it showed up as a hyperlink in the UC text and linked you back to the proper domain/dictionary object definition. This is great because if a dictionary/domain model object's definition changed then you did not have to update all use cases....plus it enforced consistency on me!

This tool also did the same thing for Actors and other use cases so your terminology was always consistent.

Can someone refresh my memory as to whether EA:

1. allows for a textual dictionary which can contain domain objects and their definitions

2. Allows you to reference defined actors, other use cases, UI diagrams etc in a hyperlink fashion

Any pointers to documentation is welcome

PT

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General Board / Download of trial version bombs

« on: September 27, 2010, 11:40:29 pm »

Hi

I am trying to convince users here that EA is a great modeling tool to use. In my DEV environment I try and download the trial version from

http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/products/ea/trial.html

and it fails. I have attempted to download from mirror sites and have also tried using IE and Firefox. Firefox tells me that there is an issue with the source package/server.

HALP

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General Board / Re: Import / Export of doc templates

« on: September 24, 2010, 11:26:51 pm »

rock on....thanks roy

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General Board / Re: Import / Export of doc templates

« on: September 24, 2010, 03:14:07 am »

Thanks Roy. The thing is, I do not have EA in front of me and I am trying to communicate how to do this across a phone line to a former colleague.

There will be EA in my new location and I neglected to bring pre-defined doc templates with me. I checked at home but they must have been deleted.

Can you provide the steps required ( Or a pointer to them ) to help me help my colleague extract and send them to me?

Many thanks

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General Board / Import / Export of doc templates

« on: September 23, 2010, 12:49:58 am »

Hi

 I was recently using EA 6.5 at a client site and created some great document templates which I neglected to save for myself ( they take a while to create!!!).

I am in contact with the past client but what I need to know is whether v6.5 has a feature to allow me to get the templates "out" of EA and then if more recent versions have the ability to "import" these templates...

Cheers

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General Board / Re: Documenting the Big Picture

« on: December 15, 2009, 06:02:11 am »

Hi Guys

 I have just had to document business processes at a very high level to look for means of automation.

 I settled on something mentioned in "Practical Software Engineering" by Enricos Manassis. He advocated using business use cases too describe ALL steps in a process (manual and system), identifying the business actors/workers and then drawing activity diagrams that mapped to the Use Cases / Actors ( each actor in the Use Case gets a swimlane)

his book: http://cgi.ebay.com/Practical-Software-Engineering-:-Enricos-Manassis-(Paperback,-2003)_W0QQitemZ341308425966QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20091207?IMSfp=TL091207207010r7825

It has worked well for me as I can go back to my UML "as is" models and copy/paste them into new diagrams and update them based on user feedback.

 So, Business Use cases and Activity Diagrams get a thumbs up from me

PT

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General Board / Disabling the debug functionality

« on: April 27, 2010, 05:25:00 am »

 Hi

 This is a long story but - due to security concerns - I may need to disable the debug functionality of EA. The IT sec people seem concerned about the product's capability to run code on the production network.

 Is there any means by which functionality like this can be disabled OR if the privilege could be removed through a user profile??

 I will look around myself but appreciate any feedback
PT

 

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General Board / Re: Simple, administrative, question

« on: April 01, 2010, 02:12:27 am »

Suhweet

Thanks, man

PT

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General Board / Simple, administrative, question

« on: March 24, 2010, 04:02:15 am »

Hi

 Whilst I was away, some folks loaded a very old backup into EA. This had the nasty side effect of creating TWO projects with the SAME name in the "Recent" section of the "Start" page.

 Does anyone know of an easy way to turf this bogus listing from the "Recent" section on the Start page? I have already renamed the bogus project and it's name is not updated on EA's Start Page

Tanx