Plug-ins for Enterprise Architect

Enterprise Architect 7.5 is a high performance software modelling and construction tool based on the UML 2.1 standard. With complete traceability from initial requirements to software design decisions, Enterprise Architect 7.5 provides the kind of robust and efficient visualisation and collaboration required in today's large and demanding software development environments.

There is an extensive community of developers creating plug-in tools to extend Enterprise Architect. They have developed plug-in technologies for Enterprise Architect, created with Enterprise Architect’s powerful customisation frameworks. These plug-ins make specialist tool extensions available to the wider Enterprise Architect user community.

RaQuest, Screen Architect, Enterprise Tester and Time Architect are plug-ins that are supported by DT ALM.

   

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Bespoke Plug-ins and Add-ins

DT ALM develops professional bespoke plug-ins. We have developed an EA code framework that allows us to develop a bespoke plug-in to suit your requirements, very quickly. Examples of a bespoke plug-in are an ORM generator, specialist code generator, third-party tool integrator.

Integration between a use case editor and Enterprise Architect (EA)

Implemented as an add-in to EA, the Use Case Editor extracts use case details from EA and passes them to the Use Case Editor. It is launched as a stand-alone application enabling use case details to be edited within the editor. These amendments are then automatically updated back to EA.

Integrate the use case editor with Borland Caliber RM.

This integration is delivered as an add-in to Caliber RM and extracts use case details from Caliber RM and passes them to the Use Case Editor which it launches as a stand-alone application enabling use case details to be edited within the editor. These amendments are then automatically updated back to Caliber RM.

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Time Architect

Time Architect (TA) is an add-in for Enterprise Architect (EA) by Sparx Systems. It has been written by Solutions Reality to extend the functionality of EA. Although driven by a need to bring Time and Project Management features into EA, TA has been written by EA modellers for EA modellers. This means that TA is a tool for all users of EA, the majority of the features we needed to add to make time and project management easy in EA, make modelling easier too.

Time Architect can be purchased through the DT ALM online shop.

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Enterprise Tester

Enterprise Tester is a fully integrated, web-based test management solution, which provides a world-first integration with Enterprise Architect and JIRA. It utilises a unique transformation framework which facilitates traceability from UML requirements to test cases and defects.

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Screen Architect

Screen Architect is a, Jolt Productivity Award winning, prototyping tool specifically developed to allow rapid prototyping of user interfaces. A plug-in to the popular UML CASE tool Enterprise Architect, Screen Architect allows traceability between screen elements, requirements and the underlying analysis model.

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Services

MDA Transformation and Code Generation

Our EA code framework allows us to generate intelligent C# classes and SQL Server DDL & DSL. In conjunction with this code generation we have developed a persistence framework which allows us to use the generated C# entities to seamlessly retrieve and persist data to our database. The framework also provides context tracking of objects, this context can be passed between application layers with the related objects, this makes the development of stateless application layers incredibly simple.

Some of the advantages of taking an MDA approach include the ability to make architectural changes across the system with very little effort. For example, if we wanted to implement auditing on various database entities across the system, we would merely need to alter the UML profile for our entities to include a tagged value specifying whether or not the entity requires auditing and then to modify the MDA engine to produce auditing SQL and logic for the entities where auditing is required. This provides a single point of maintenance for any changes to the auditing logic & ensures a consistent approach across the system.   

The Imago Back Office pensions platform is built on this framework.

 

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Document Templates

When regulatory standards or internal processes are imposed, you are required to generate documents in the appropriate format from EA. Working with EA's document templates is not a trivial task - that's where we come in. With our extensive knowledge of EA's document templates, we can have you generating professional, standards-driven documents very quickly.