AS4:EA-solution
for Enterprise Architect
The uniform
design of UML-models (Unified Modeling Language) is the basis for high
model-quality. Complex UML-models could easily contain undetected errors, and
spotting and repairing them later causes higher expenses. Additionally to
your UML-modeling tool, AS4:EA offers a innovative UML-check tool, as an
enhancement, with which you can achieve high-quality UML-designs in complex
projects and distributed environments with various modelers. With just one
click, you are able to check design-rules, modeling-guidelines and quality
metrics. AS4:EA detects incomplete or incorrect elements in a UML-model, as well as the
violation of style-guidelines, up to data-types
and names. In the basic set, AS4:EA provides up to 100 guidelines for
UML-modeling, which you can easily adjust and flexibly extend.
Checking by
guidelines
With
AS4:EA, modelers are able to focus the quality-assuring actions as inspections
and reviews more precisely onto the potentially critical spots of an
UML-design.Those are possible sources of reliability- and
maintenance-problems. A calculated design-metric helps to detect problems with code-generization
and supports the estimation of effort, as well as the planning of the project
and its monitoring. AS4:EA contains a comprehensive collection of guidelines, covering any type of UML diagram.
Advantages
- Uniform basic settings of your
UML-projects
- Compliant settings of the
modeling-tool
- Including static architecture-rules and dynamic performance
- Conventions for model-layout and
design-rules
- Detection of anomalies (MISRA compliance)
- Uniform semantics
(name-conventions, stereotypes)
- Code-rules (data type, value
range, initialization)
- Rules for code- and
document-generation
- Attributes requiring
documentation
Are you
using several UML-tools in your business? No problem: Thanks to the inbuilt
transformation-technology, a guideline-catalog can be applied to UML-models
from various origins. By that, you are flexible and even secure if upgrades or version changes have happened.
Instant
benefit
- Drastic reduction of manual
review-effort
- Early spotting of errors in UML-models
- Instant risk-minimization and
fulfillment of documentary obligation
- Cross-process usage in teams
with traceability
- Flexibility by being tool- and
platform-independent via XMI
- Rapid check of traceability to
other documents
- Improvement of the
model-quality and tracking of reviews
- Process-optimization within the
development through gathered knowledge
Our service
You have
ideas? We have the executable solution! Match Technologies creates practicable
guidelines and software-solutions based on ISO-norms, for the check and assessment
of your engineering-data, following defined pre-settings.Moreover, the
consistency and traceability of your data is assured. In the course of that,
cross-platform solutions on XML-basis are developed, which can have various
fields of application.
Flexible
fields of application
The check
is based on the open XMI-standard. With XMI, the Object Management Group (OMG)
has introduced a data-type, which depicts its UML-models according to XML. Accordingly every UML-chart can be expressed in XMI, which is one of the most
significant requirements for the automated, further processing of UML-models.
In order to assure a tight integration and tracing of errors in the
modeling-tool, AS4:EA supports the following tools:
-
IBM Rational Rhapsody
- Microsoft Office Visio 2003 bis
2010
- More on request ...