UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops) Training Course

Create and configure EAP file

• Initialize and save an Enterprise Architect project file
• Explore view types
• Navigate the program interface, including menus, toolbars, Toolbox, Project Browser, and auxiliary windows
• Customize the workspace by docking and hiding windows

Working with a model, diagram

• Utilize predefined models
• Manage packages (views) and diagrams
• Insert elements into models and diagrams
• Understand the various methods for removing items and their implications
• Persist diagram changes

Requirements Management

• Techniques for requirements gathering
• Classify requirements using FURPS categories
• Create Requirements Diagrams
• Define relationships between requirements
  • Aggregation
  • Dependency
• Enhance diagram aesthetics
  • Apply diagram layout rules
  • Color-code requirement status
  • Toggle package name visibility
• Establish and manage relationship matrices
• Document requirements
  • Generate HTML pages
  • Create printable versions
• Advanced requirements management
  • Define custom requirement types
  • Set custom requirement statuses
  • Track requirement progress
  • Document requirement details

Business process modeling, architecture

• Activity Diagrams
• Compound activities
• Manage control and object flows
• Handle exceptions and interrupt flows
• Use partitions
• Model concurrent flows and decision points
• Improve diagram presentation
  • Adjust detail levels
  • Simplify visual complexity
  • Manage process complexity
• Components and Deployment diagrams
• Establish initial system architecture (logical and physical)
  • Nested components
  • Delegation and assembly
  • Ports
  • Interfaces
  • Communication paths
• Implement non-standard stereotypes in diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • Use the stereotypes graphic library
  • Add the library to your project
  • Create custom graphics stereotypes

Use Cases and their documentation

• Model functional requirements
• Define system scope
• Identify actors and their relationships
  • Identify use cases
  • Configure the "actor - use case" association and its properties
  • Map use case relationships: include, extend, generalization
• Automate numbering
• Generate use case scenarios and corresponding activity diagrams
• Generate documentation
• Utilize document templates

Analytical model

• Domain-level Class Diagrams
  • Model classes, methods, attributes, abstract classes, and interfaces
  • Define associations and their characteristics
  • Map other relationships: aggregation, composition, generalization, dependency, association classes
  • Identify key classes
• Sequence Diagrams
  • Handle message types: asynchronous, synchronous, return
  • Apply stereotypes: Boundary, Control, and Entity

Static model

• Design-level Class Diagrams
• Source code generation and reverse engineering (OPTIONAL)
  • Generate source code from diagrams
  • Generate diagrams from source code
  • Synchronize source code with diagrams
• Object Diagrams

Dynamic Model

• Validate static models
  • Clarify method signatures
  • Verify class diagrams
• Perform dynamic modeling at the method call level (sequence diagrams) based on use cases and static analysis models
• Enhance diagram readability
  • Reduce modeled scenarios
  • Minimize lifelines
  • Avoid complex nested blocks
  • Hide unnecessary details
• State Machine diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • Model states and sub-states
  • Define state transitions: trigger, condition, and action
  • Specify internal actions (entry, do, exit)

Patterns and profiles (OPTIONAL)

• Apply "Gang of Four" patterns
• Utilize patterns defined within the project
• Implement user-defined patterns
• Import profiles from XML files

MDA, source code (OPTIONAL)

• Transform Class Diagrams into database schemas
• Generate SQL scripts from class diagrams
• Generate source code using available options

Group work

• Version control for Enterprise Architect packages
• Analyze differences between project and documentation versions
• Use repositories for model storage
• Leverage collaboration tools