UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops) Training Course

Creating and Configuring EAP Files

• Creating and saving Enterprise Architect project files
• Understanding types of views
• Navigating the program interface: menus, toolbars, Toolbox, Project Browser, and other windows
• Managing window docking and visibility

Working with Models and Diagrams

• Utilizing predefined models
• Managing Packages (views) and diagrams
• Adding elements to models and diagrams
• Various methods for removing items and understanding the consequences
• Saving diagrams

Requirements Management

• Methods for gathering requirements
• FURPS requirement categories
• Creating Requirements Diagrams
• Defining relationships between requirements
  • Aggregation
  • Dependency
• Enhancing diagram appearance
  • Diagrams layout
  • Coloring requirement status
  • Toggling package name visibility
• Creating and managing relationship matrices
• Documenting requirements
  • Generating HTML pages
  • Creating printable versions
• Advanced requirement management
  • Defining custom requirement types
  • Setting custom requirement statuses
  • Tracking requirements
  • Documenting requirements

Business Process Modeling and Architecture

• Activity Diagrams
• Compound activities
• Control flows and object flows
• Handling exceptions and interrupt flows
• Partitions
• Concurrent flows and decision-making
• Improving diagram appearance
  • Adjusting levels of detail
  • Reducing detail density
  • Managing process complexity
• Components and Deployment diagrams
• Initial system architecture – logical and physical
  • Nested components
  • Delegation and assembly
  • Ports
  • Interfaces
  • Communication paths
• Non-standard implementation of stereotypes in diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • Stereotype graphic libraries
  • Adding libraries to projects
  • Custom graphic stereotypes

Use Cases and Their Documentation

• Modeling functional requirements
• Defining system scope
• Actors and their relationships
  • Identifying use cases
  • "Actor – use case" associations and properties
  • Use case relationships: include, extend, generalization
• Automatic numbering
• Use Case scenarios and generating activity diagrams from them
• Generating documentation
• Document Templates

Analytical Model

• Class diagrams at the domain model level
  • Classes, methods, attributes, abstract classes, interfaces
  • Associations and their characteristics
  • Other relationships: aggregation, composition, generalization, dependency, association classes
  • Class identification
• Sequence Diagrams
  • Message types: asynchronous, synchronous, return
  • Stereotypes: Boundary, Control, and Entity

Static Model

• Class diagrams at the design level
• Source code generation and reverse engineering (OPTIONAL)
  • Generating source code from diagrams
  • Generating diagrams from source code
  • Synchronizing source code and diagrams
• Object Diagrams

Dynamic Model

• Verifying the static model
  • Clarifying method signatures
  • Validating class diagrams
• Dynamic modeling of method calls (sequence diagrams) based on use cases and static analysis models
• Improving diagram appearance
  • Reducing the number of modeled scenarios
  • Reducing the number of lifelines
  • Avoiding complex nested blocks
  • Hiding unnecessary details
• State Machine diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • States and sub-states
  • State transitions – triggers, conditions, and actions
  • Internal actions (entry, do, exit)

Patterns and Profiles (OPTIONAL)

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

MDA and Source Code (OPTIONAL)

• Transforming Class Diagrams to database schemas
• Generating SQL scripts based on class diagrams
• Source code generation – available options

Group Work

• Enterprise Architect package versioning
• Managing differences in project and documentation versions
• Using repositories to store models
• Collaboration tools