UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops) Training Course

Creating and Configuring EAP Files

• Creating and saving Enterprise Architect project files
• Understanding view types
• 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 models and diagrams
• Various methods for removing items and understanding their consequences
• Diagram saving options

Requirements Management

• Techniques for requirements gathering
• FURPS requirements categories
• Requirements Diagrams
• Relationships between requirements
  • Aggregation
  • Dependency
• Enhancing diagram presentation
  • Diagram layout
  • Colour-coded 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 status
  • Requirement tracking
  • Requirement documentation

Business Process Modelling and Architecture

• Activity Diagrams
• Compound activities
• Control flows and object flows
• Exception handling and interrupt flows
• Partitions
• Concurrent flows and decision-making
• Enhancing diagram presentation
  • Managing levels of detail
  • Reducing detail density
  • Addressing process complexity
• Components and Deployment Diagrams
• Initial system architecture – logical and physical
  • Nested components
  • Delegation and assembly
  • Ports
  • Interfaces
  • Communication paths
• Non-standard stereotype implementation in diagrams (Optional)
  • Stereotypes graphic library
  • Adding libraries to the project
  • Custom graphics stereotypes

Use Cases and Their Documentation

• Modelling functional requirements
• Defining system scope
• Actors and their interrelationships
  • Identifying use cases
  • “Actor - Use Case” associations and their properties
  • Relationships between use cases: include, extend, generalization
• Automatic numbering
• Generating use case scenarios and activity diagrams
• Documentation generation
• Document templates

Analytical Model

• Class diagrams at the domain model level
  • Classes, methods, attributes, abstract classes, and interfaces
  • Associations and their characteristics
  • Other relationships: aggregation, composition, generalization, dependency, association class
  • 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

• Static model verification
  • Clarifying method signatures
  • Verifying the class diagram
• Dynamic modelling of method calls (sequence diagrams) based on use cases and the static analysis model
• Enhancing diagram presentation
  • Reducing the number of modelled scenarios
  • Minimizing the number of lifelines
  • Avoiding complex nested blocks
  • Hiding unnecessary details
• State Machine Diagrams (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

Collaborative Work

• Versioning Enterprise Architect packages
• Differences between project and documentation versions
• Utilizing repositories for model storage
• Collaboration tools