UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops) Training Course

Create and configure EAP file

• Create and save an Enterprise Architect project file
• Types of views
• Program interface: menus, toolbars, Toolbox, Project Browser and other windows
• Docking and hiding windows

Working with a model, diagram

• Predefined models
• Packages (views) and diagrams
• Adding elements to the model and diagram
• Different ways of removing the items and their consequences
• Saving diagrams

Requirements Management

• Methods of requirements gathering
• FURPS requirements categories
• Requirements Diagram
• Relationships between requirements
  • aggregation
  • dependency
• How to improve the appearance of a diagram?
  • layout diagram
  • colour status requirements
  • enable / disable the package names
• Create and manage a matrix relationship
• Documenting requirements
  • HTML pages
  • printable version
• Advanced requirement management
  • custom types of requirements
  • custom requirements status
  • tracking requirements
  • requirements documenting

Business process modeling, architecture

• Activity Diagram
• Compound activities
• Control flows, object flows
• Handling exceptions, interrupt flow
• Partitions
• Concurrent flows and decision-making
• How to improve the appearance of a diagram?
  • different levels of detail
  • reducing the amount of detail
  • complexity of the process
• Components and Deployment diagrams
• The initial architecture of the system - logical and physical
  • nested components
  • delegation and assembly
  • port
  • interface
  • communication paths
• Non-standard implementation of stereotypes in diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • stereotypes graphic library
  • adding the library to the project
  • custom graphics stereotypes

Use Cases and their documentation

• Functional requirements modeling
• Scope of the system
• Actors and the relationships between them
  • Identifying use cases
  • Association "actor - use case" and its properties
  • Relationship between use cases: include, extend, generalization
• Auto numering
• Use Case scenarios and activity diagrams generated based on them
• Documentation generation
• Document Templates

Analytical model

• Class diagram on domain model level
  • class, method, attribute, abstract class, interface
  • association and its characteristics
  • other relationships: aggregation, composition, generalization, dependency, association class
  • class identyfication
• Sequence Diagram
  • message types: asynchronous, synchronous, return
  • stereotypes: Boundary, Control and Entity

Static model

• Class Diagram on design level
• Source code generation and reverse engineering (OPTIONAL)
  • source code generating from the diagram
  • diagram generation from source code
  • source code and diagram synchronization
• Object Diagrams

Dynamic Model

• Static model verification
  • clarify the method signatures
  • verification of the class diagram
• Dynamic modeling at the level of method calls (sequence diagram) based on use cases and static analysis model
• How to improve the appearance of a diagram?
  • reducing the number of modeled scenarios
  • reducing the number of lifelines
  • avoiding complex nested blocks
  • hiding details
• State Machine diagram (OPTIONAL)
  • states and sub-states
  • transitions between states - trigger, condition and action
  • internal actions (entry, do, exit)

Patterns and profiles (OPTIONAL)

• "Gang of Four" patterns
• Patterns defined in the project
• User patterns
• Importing profiles from XML files

MDA, source code (OPTIONAL)

• Class Diagram to database schema transformation
• SQL script generation based on class diagram
• Source code generation - available options

Group work

• Enterprise Architect package versioning
• Differences in the versions of the project, documentation
• Using a repository to store the model
• Collaboration tools