What's new in MagicDraw 18.0 LTR

Model-based requirements engineering brings the value of:

• Easy identification of the scope and potential consequence of any change.
• Single and consistent data source: requirements, processes, and design.
• Increased quality of requirements due to the automatic validation and better visibility.
• Saved time and resources as you are working in the same environment where your models are.
• Improved team communication with a simple and standard notation, clear diagrams, and a web-based report.

With this plugin you can:

• Import requirements in a ReqIF file from other requirements management tools, such as IBM DOORS 9.4 and 9.5, IBM DOORS Next Generation, PTC Integrity, Polarion, and Siemens Teamcenter.
• Trace from requirements to other model elements of business, software, or systems architecture and align requirements with your model.
• Analyze the impact of a change.
• Track metrics.
• Capture requirements in dedicated diagrams, matrixes, and tables.
• Document requirements.
• Extend the plugin by creating new requirement types and customizing the plugin’s functionality.

For more information, visit the Cameo Requirements Modeler Plugin page.

Publish your project as interactive web portal and share it with stakeholders, including even those who are incapable of reading models in MagicDraw!

The published web portal eliminates less needed elements from the model tree and proposes the most relevant views of software engineering project, such as Glossary, Requirements, Architecture, and Implementation. So you can discover your project in user-friendly and easily browsable environment.

Use quick search to find elements and diagrams for viewing their custom contents and share this information with colleagues. Provide feedback on any element or diagram.

Publishing the project as a web portal is as easy as generating any report. On the main menu, click Tools > Report Wizard, select the Software Engineering Portal template, and follow the steps of the report wizard. Then place the output in a shared directory or on web server to make it available for colleagues.

IMPORTANT! The Software Engineering Portal template is only available in MagicDraw Enterprise edition. In other editions, MagicDraw provides a demo version of this web report template, which can contain, at most, 10 symbols per view.

NOTE. This is a technology preview of the software engineering portal. Please explore this new portal, experiment with it, and get back to us at support@nomagic.com with your feedback and suggestions about possible improvements or features you are missing. We seek to create as serviceable tool as it could be, so we are thankful and very appreciative of your contributions!

With this new approach you can

• Create metric suites for calculating metrics.
• Calculate metrics according to given parameters.
• Easily customize the representation of the metrics in the new type table – the metric table.

Creating a new elementary metric suite is as simple as creating a new class with a couple of stereotyped attributes: one for parameter definition and one for metric definition.

The parameter definition can be any model element or a primitive type, such as real or integer. The metric definition, that is, a formula for calculating metrics, can be easily specified either as a structured expression (by using the operations of the expression evaluation engine) or as a script operation written in any script language supported by MagicDraw (for example, JavaScript, Jython, Groovy). Moreover, one metric definition can use the results of other metric definitions.

Once the metric suite is created, you can calculate the metrics for a selected element. Analyze the results of the calculations, that is, metrics, in a metric table, which is automatically created for these metrics representation. You can easily reorganize the columns of the table, calculate new metrics, and recalculate the existing metrics with other parameters.