UML & Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect for UML Practitioners

Introduction to UML

• Brief introduction covering what the UML is including diagram types and very brief history

Introduction to EA

• What is EA
• EA Architecture; where is the model stored and high level differences between versions
• A look at the object browser and how models are structured using views and packages
• Diagramming techniques
• EA Options menu
• EA Settings menu
• How to search the model
• Focus is on getting new users to a point where they are familiar with how to use the tool and where to find certain features; also trying to instil best practice early on such as using package diagrams to structure views and reuse of elements in the model.

Use Cases

• How to draw the Use Case diagram
• Identification of use cases and actors
• Discussion on application within iterative development methodologies
• Specification of Use Cases (Basic Flow, Alternate Flows, Exception Flows) using text
• Common issues and their solutions

Requirements modelling and tracing in EA

• Internal and External requirements in EA
• How to draw the custom diagram for requirements in EA
• Realising and tracing requirements
• Change management using requirements diagrams
• Importing and Exporting requirements

Activity diagram

• How to draw Activity diagrams
• Look at how to document use case specifications diagrammatically with activity diagrams and the benefits it brings
• Look at business process modelling using activity diagrams and the advantage of using structured activities

Class Diagram

• Discuss classes and objects
• How to draw class diagrams
• Differences between domain modelling and implementation modelling

Object Diagram

Package Diagram

State Machine Diagram

• How to draw State Machine Diagrams
• How to Model an Object State in EA so that those states are available for that object throughout the model

Sequence Diagram

• Discuss differences between using sequence diagrams for analysis or design
• How to draw sequence diagrams

Component Diagram

• How to draw Component Diagrams
• Discuss Applications of Component Diagrams such as analysing existing Architectures to look for possible optimisations
• Show how to link component class design to the component without compromising the structure of the model

Composite Structure Diagram

• How to draw Composite Structure Diagrams
• Using collaborations to model patterns or as a data mapping tool

MDA

• What is a PIM
• What is a PSM
• PIM to PSM Transformations
• Brief look at the transformation templates in EA

Code Engineering

• Forward and Reverse Engineering Code including reverse engineering binaries
• Forward and Reverse Engineering Databases (look at Data Modelling using Class Diagrams)
• Creating Sequence diagrams from existing applications through debugging them in EA
• A look at the Code Engineering Templates in EA
• Discuss Pro’s and Con’s of Code Engineering

Data Modelling

• How to forward & reverse engineer DDL
• How to use MDA transforms to create a data model from a PIM

Documentation in EA

• How to generate RTF documentation in EA
• Customise RTF templates
• How to generate HTML documentation in EA
• Customise HTML templates
• Virtual documents