For the sake of argument, we have a class called Airline and a class called AirlinePartnership. We create an Association Class between them which we call Airline_AirlinePartnership.
The Traceability view shows an association between Airline and AirlinePartnership. It shows no relationship between Airline_AirlinePartnership and any other element. A quick and ugly document template focusing on Elements | Connector also fails to reveal the Association Class.
The documentation says
An Association Class is a UML construct that enables an Association to have attributes and operations (features). This results in a hybrid relation with the characteristics of an Association and a Class.
However outside of the diagram all of these attributes and operations aren't reflected as part of the Association.
The diamond notation seems to have a further problem in that I end up with a three way association (not an Association Class) and the source and target of the association is broken because of the hop in the middle.
Am I missing something or is this a shortcoming in EA?