System Emulation

[jav]

We are currently looking at purchasing a software development tool for our company and I was wondering if EA does or if EA will support system emulation through the UML based design (aside from sequence charts) similar to what SDL does.
Basically interested in Data Flow from process/function calls so we can debug at a design level rather than at a code level.
I understand UML does let you pass through parameters (??) but can you step through functions to see these parameters manipulated etc.

[Andreas_G]

Hi jav,

to my knowledge this is not supported by EA (yet).

Regards,
Andreas

[sargasso]

There is support for STATIC analysis of runtime behaviour through the use of run state and object state used in instance diagrams.

EA does not dynamically model the impact of state/value changes across objects.  However we have successfully used these instance models to successfully analyse a complex behaviour situation for design purposes.

I see no reason why such instance models cannot be used in the same manner for debugging use.

hth
Bruce