Enterprise Architect Foundation Course

The Enterprise Architect Foundation Course introduces the main features of Enterprise Architect, the UML 2.2 diagrams and other widely-used formalisms, such as the BPMN notation. This is an example-driven course, which follows the typical development path of a simple application, from the requirements analysis down to the deployment and test of the system. Each topic is followed by a practical exercise, so that the participants are given the chance to actively try the features of Enterprise Architect and incrementally build a simple system while attending the lessons.

Introduction

Introduction to UML and Enterprise Architect:

• the fundamentals of UML diagrams,
• a presentation of Enterprise Architect,
• how to create a project in Enterprise Architect.

Requirements Analysis

An introduction to requirements management, including:

• the Enterprise Architect requirements diagrams,
• use case analysis,
• traceability of requirements in Enterprise Architect.

Business Analysis

The BPMN standard and its application in Enterprise Architect:

• an overview of the BPMN symbols,
• the BPMN diagram type in Enterprise Architect.

Structural Design

The structural diagrams of UML in theory and in practice:

• component diagrams,
• composite structure diagrams,
• package diagrams,
• class diagrams,
• object diagrams

Data Modeling

Modeling a database through an in-built UML profile:

• an introduction to UML profiles,
• the data modeling profile in Enterprise Architect.

Behavioral Modeling

The behavioral diagrams UML in theory and in practice:

• activity diagrams,
• state machine diagrams,
• interaction diagrams.

Deployment

The UML deployment diagrams.

Testing

The testing managemente in Enterprise Architect:

• test typologies,
• planning and assigning tests,
• tracing tests to components modeled in Enterprise Architect.

Documentation

A model-driven application: the automatic generation of documents:

• generating RTF documentation out of a modeled project,
• generating HTML documentation.

Management and Project-wide Features

Enterprise Architect support for project management and collaboration:

• baselines management,
• version control,
• model search facilities,
• metrics for task complexity,
• resources management,
• tasks and issues management.