UML in Enterprise Architect (workshops) Training Course

Creating and Configuring EAP Files

• Creating and saving Enterprise Architect project files
• Understanding different types of views
• Navigating the program interface, including menus, toolbars, the Toolbox, the Project Browser, and other windows
• Docking and hiding windows

Working with Models and Diagrams

• Utilizing predefined models
• Managing packages (views) and diagrams
• Adding elements to models and diagrams
• Different methods for removing items and understanding their implications
• Diagrams saving procedures

Requirements Management

• Techniques for requirements gathering
• FURPS requirements categories
• Creating Requirements Diagrams
• Defining relationships between requirements
  • Aggregation
  • Dependency
• Enhancing diagram aesthetics
  • Layout diagram optimization
  • Color-coding requirement status
  • Toggling package name visibility
• Creating and managing matrix relationships
• Documenting requirements
  • Generating HTML pages
  • Creating printable versions
• Advanced requirement management
  • Defining custom requirement types
  • Customizing requirement status
  • Tracking requirements
  • Documenting requirements

Business Process Modeling and Architecture

• Activity Diagrams
• Compound activities
• Control flows and object flows
• Handling exceptions and interrupt flows
• Partitions
• Concurrent flows and decision-making logic
• Improving diagram presentation
  • 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
• Non-standard implementation of stereotypes in diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • Stereotypes graphic library
  • Adding libraries to the project
  • Custom graphics for stereotypes

Use Cases and Documentation

• Modeling functional requirements
• Defining the system scope
• Actors and their relationships
  • Identifying use cases
  • Association between "actor" and "use case" and associated properties
  • Relationships between use cases: include, extend, and generalization
• Automatic numbering
• Generating use case scenarios and activity diagrams based on them
• Generating documentation
• Using 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 modeling of method calls (sequence diagrams) based on use cases and the static analysis model
• Enhancing diagram clarity
  • Reducing the number of modeled scenarios
  • Minimizing the number of lifelines
  • Avoiding complex nested blocks
  • Hiding non-essential details
• State Machine Diagrams (OPTIONAL)
  • States and sub-states
  • Transitions between states: triggers, conditions, and actions
  • 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 options

Group Collaboration

• Enterprise Architect package versioning
• Comparing differences in project and documentation versions
• Using repositories to store models
• Collaboration tools