Borland Caliber RM and Enterprise Architect Integration Add-In

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Borland Caliber RM and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect Integration Add-In

Borland Caliber RM and Enterprise Architect Integration

Borland Caliber RM and Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect are often used as the tools to manage software requirements and modelling the design of the system using UML or BPMN.

These tools are excellent in their own specific area, but a much needed facility by organisations is the ability to maintain traceability between the system model solutions and the system requirements.

Dunstan Thomas have developed an Enterprise Architect add-in acting as a bridge that allows requirements to be managed in Borland Caliber RM and then imported directly into Enterprise Architect for traceability and reporting purposes.

Borland Caliber RM and Enterprise Architect Integration add-in Features

The Borland Caliber RM and Enterprise Architect Add-In has been developed using Enterprise Architect Add-In and MDG Add-In technologies.

A selected package (or view) within the Enterprise Architect project is connected to a specific requirements baseline, within a specific Borland Caliber RM project, on a particular Borland Caliber RM server.

Borland Caliber RM Requirements can be imported into Enterprise Architect maintaining their same order and tree structure as specified in the associated Borland Caliber RM project. The Borland Caliber RM Requirement Type is replicated in Enterprise Architect by modelling each Caliber Requirement Type as a Package, thereby attaining the same “look-and-feel” in both products.

Once an initial import has been performed, subsequent imports will synchronise the Requirements according to the following criteria:

Requirements added to Borland Caliber RM but not in the Enterprise Architect project

These are added as new requirements in their correct place within the Requirements hierarchy

Requirements whose attributes have changed (they are in both Borland Caliber RM and Enterprise Architect)

These are overwritten with the latest versions from Borland Caliber RM

Requirements deleted from Borland Caliber RM but still exist in Enterprise Architect

These are moved to a dedicated View named Requirements Re-cycle Bin for further action by the modeller

Requirement in Caliber RM

Requirement from Caliber RM displayed in Enterprise Architect

Borland Caliber RM and Enterprise Architect Add-In Installation

The Enterprise Architect Add-In is available in a self-installer file for easy installation on client machines and will not need any changes or modifications to the Borland Caliber RM server.