UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops) Training Course

Creating and Configuring EAP Files

• Creating and saving Enterprise Architect project files
• Types of views
• Navigating the 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
• Diagrams saving

Requirements Management

• Techniques for gathering requirements
• FURPS requirements categories
• Requirements Diagrams
• Relationships between requirements
  • aggregation
  • dependency
• Enhancing diagram appearance
  • Diagram layout
  • Colour coding for requirement status
  • Enabling/disabling package names
• Creating and managing relationship matrices
• Documenting requirements
  • HTML pages
  • Printable versions
• Advanced requirements management
  • Custom requirement types
  • Custom requirement statuses
  • Requirement tracking
  • Requirements documentation

Business Process Modelling 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 unnecessary detail
  • Managing process complexity
• Component and Deployment diagrams
• Initial system architecture - logical and physical
  • Nested components
  • Delegation and assembly
  • Ports
  • Interfaces
  • Communication paths
• Custom implementation of stereotypes in diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • Stereotype graphic libraries
  • Adding libraries to the project
  • Custom graphic stereotypes

Use Cases and Documentation

• Modelling functional requirements
• System scope
• Actors and their relationships
  • Identifying use cases
  • "Actor - Use Case" associations and their properties
  • Use case relationships: include, extend, generalization
• Automatic numbering
• Use Case scenarios and activity diagrams generated from them
• 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, and association classes
  • Class identification
• Sequence Diagrams
  • Message types: asynchronous, synchronous, and 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 class diagrams
• Dynamic modelling at the method call level (Sequence Diagrams) based on use cases and the static analytical model
• Enhancing diagram appearance
  • Reducing the number of modelled scenarios
  • Reducing the number of lifelines
  • Avoiding complex nested blocks
  • Hiding 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

Group Collaboration

• Enterprise Architect package versioning
• Managing differences between project and documentation versions
• Using a repository to store models
• Collaboration tools