UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops) Training Course

Creating and Configuring EAP Files

• Initiating and saving Enterprise Architect project files
• Understanding different types of views
• Navigating the program interface: menus, toolbars, Toolbox, Project Browser, and additional windows
• Managing window docking and visibility

Model and Diagram Management

• Utilizing predefined models
• Organizing packages (views) and diagrams
• Inserting elements into models and diagrams
• Exploring various deletion methods and their impacts
• Strategies for saving diagrams

Requirements Management

• Techniques for gathering requirements
• Understanding FURPS requirement categories
• Constructing Requirements Diagrams
• Defining relationships between requirements
  • Aggregation
  • Dependencies
• Enhancing diagram aesthetics
  • Adjusting diagram layout
  • Color-coding requirement statuses
  • Toggling package name visibility
• Creating and managing relationship matrices
• Documenting requirements
  • Generating HTML pages
  • Creating printable versions
• Advanced requirement management
  • Defining custom requirement types
  • Setting custom requirement statuses
  • Tracking requirements
  • Documentation practices

Business Process Modeling and Architecture

• Activity Diagrams
• Compound activities
• Control and object flows
• Managing exceptions and interrupt flows
• Partitions
• Concurrent flows and decision logic
• Improving diagram clarity
  • Varying levels of detail
  • Minimizing unnecessary detail
  • Managing process complexity
• Component and Deployment Diagrams
• Initial system architecture (logical and physical)
  • Nested components
  • Delegation and assembly
  • Ports
  • Interfaces
  • Communication paths
• Non-standard implementation of stereotypes in diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • Utilizing the stereotypes graphic library
  • Adding libraries to the project
  • Custom graphic stereotypes

Use Cases and Documentation

• Modeling functional requirements
• Defining the system scope
• Actors and their interrelationships
  • Identifying use cases
  • Associations between "actor" and "use case" and their properties
  • Use case relationships: include, extend, and generalization
• Automatic numbering
• Use Case scenarios and the generation of activity diagrams 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
  • Additional 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

• Verifying the static model
  • Clarifying method signatures
  • Validating class diagrams
• Dynamic modeling of method calls (sequence diagrams) based on use cases and static analysis models
• Enhancing diagram readability
  • Reducing the number of modeled scenarios
  • Limiting the number of lifelines
  • Avoiding complex nested blocks
  • Concealing unnecessary details
• State Machine Diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • States and sub-states
  • State transitions: triggers, conditions, and actions
  • Internal actions (entry, do, exit)

Patterns and Profiles (OPTIONAL)

• "Gang of Four" design 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 from class diagrams
• Source code generation options

Collaborative Work

• Versioning Enterprise Architect packages
• Reviewing differences in project and documentation versions
• Using repositories for model storage
• Collaboration tools