Model-based requirements engineering brings the value of:
With this plugin you can:
For more information, visit the Cameo Requirements Modeler Plugin page.
Glossary saves time by ensuring consistent usage of terminology in the organization. It also improves the communication between team members since terms are understood in the same way and definitions become visible everywhere the terms are used.
Creating a term is quick and easy. Just do one of the following:
After terms are defined in the glossary, it is easy to use them in your project. Just press Ctrl+spacebar while typing to get a list of available terms.
For your convenience, a term description becomes visible when you move the pointer over this term.
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
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.
The recent enhancements for modeling efficiency saves time, which allows focusing on what to model, but not how to model and keep the result well-formed:
Now you can get professional-looking diagrams quickly, without the need to adjust the path layout manually. When drawing new paths, reconnecting or moving paths, or resizing connected shapes, the automatic layout does most of the work in optimizing the routes for these paths, so you can focus on model creation.
Here are the rules of the new path behavior:
Also, now you can make the route of a single path or the routes of all the paths connected to a selected shape rectilinear with just one click.
Got lost between open diagrams? In earlier versions, every diagram could open only in a new tab. Now you can choose to open diagrams either in the same tab or in a new tab – just like in the most popular Internet browsers.
Here are the benefits of using the tabbed browsing:
Different aspects of the system (for example, requirements, architecture, test cases, domain models) can now be analyzed in separate tabs. Both backward and forward navigations are supported for each aspect (tab) separately. Navigation does not open new tabs by default, which greatly helps in limiting the number of open tabs.
Spending too much time searching for the specific diagram to create? Now you can create any diagram you want in just a few seconds despite the number of diagrams! Simply click the Create Diagram button (or press Ctrl+N), type the first letters or a part of the diagram type name, and press Enter.
The enhanced Camel Case mode in Search engine makes the diagram creation even faster, as it allows:
Simplified and unified UI for symbols manipulation makes the symbols customization easier and intuitive:
Now you can see how your shapes or paths changes immediately after modifying their symbol properties without closing the Symbol Properties dialog. Also, while the dialog is open you can still work with diagrams or other dialogs. The ability to group the properties by display modes (Standard, Expert, All) allows the hiding of unnecessary properties, thus making the dialog simpler and faster to use.
Custom validation rules, derived properties, queries for smart packages, metric definitions, criteria for dependency matrices, and so forth can now be defined in any of the following languages: JavaScript, Jython, JRuby, Groovy, and BeanShell. Learn more |
Need to handle a huge amount of instance specifications? Feel annoyed about editing their slot values one by one in the limited-size cells of the Specification window? Try instance tables! Learn more |
As a honored member of OMG, we are proud to state that MagicDraw is a pioneer in support of the latest major UML standard. Learn more |
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