UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops) Training Course

Creating and Configuring the 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 Models and Diagrams

• Predefined models
• Packages (views) and diagrams
• Adding elements to the model and diagram
• Various methods for removing items and their implications
• Saving diagrams

Requirements Management

• Methods for gathering requirements
• FURPS requirements categories
• Requirements Diagram
• Relationships between requirements
  • Aggregation
  • Dependency
• Enhancing diagram appearance
  • Diagram layout
  • Color-coding requirement status
  • Toggling package name visibility
• Creating and managing matrix relationships
• Documenting requirements
  • HTML pages
  • Printable versions
• Advanced requirement management
  • Custom requirement types
  • Custom requirement statuses
  • Requirement tracking
  • Requirement documentation

Business Process Modeling and Architecture

• Activity Diagram
• Compound activities
• Control flows and object flows
• Handling exceptions and interrupt flows
• Partitions
• Concurrent flows and decision points
• Enhancing diagram appearance
  • Varying levels of detail
  • Reducing detail density
  • Managing process complexity
• Components and Deployment diagrams
• Initial system architecture: logical and physical aspects
  • Nested components
  • Delegation and assembly
  • Ports
  • Interfaces
  • Communication paths
• Implementing non-standard stereotypes in diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • Stereotype graphic library
  • Adding libraries to the project
  • Custom graphic stereotypes

Use Cases and Documentation

• Modeling functional requirements
• 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 generated activity diagrams
• Documentation generation
• Document Templates

Analytical Model

• Class diagrams at the domain model level
  • Class, method, attribute, abstract class, interface
  • Associations and their characteristics
  • Other relationships: aggregation, composition, generalization, dependency, association class
  • Class identification
• Sequence Diagram
  • 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
  • Synchronization between source code and diagrams
• Object Diagrams

Dynamic Model

• Verification of the static model
  • Clarifying method signatures
  • Verifying the class diagram
• Dynamic modeling at the method call level (sequence diagram) based on use cases and the static analysis model
• Enhancing diagram appearance
  • Reducing the number of modeled scenarios
  • Reducing the number of lifelines
  • Avoiding complex nested blocks
  • Hiding unnecessary 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 within the project
• User-defined patterns
• Importing profiles from XML files

MDA and Source Code (OPTIONAL)

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

Group Work

• Enterprise Architect package versioning
• Differences across project and documentation versions
• Using a repository for model storage
• Collaboration tools