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Key Features |
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Support for UML 2.1 diagrams including: Use Case, Activity, State, Interaction Overview, Sequence, Communication, Package, Class, Object, Composite, Component and Deployment |
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Extremely flexible to support almost any methodology, model or diagram. Allowing user to setup a framework with custom labels, naming and diagramming conventions. |
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Low license cost |
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Full WYSIWYG template driven RTF/HTML generator: Output in WORD, rich text format, or post to the internet or on a local intranet using the HTML report generator |
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Forward and Reverse Code Engineering: Fully template driven code generation engine - modify inbuilt templates or write your own from scratch |
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Plug-ins to link EA to Visual Studio .NET or Eclipse |
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Model or reverse engineer database tables, columns, keys, foreign keys and complex relationships using UML and inbuilt data modeling Profile |
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Ability to Share models/files across networks, in complex distributed developments, and in different DBMS based repositories, including Oracle 9i and 10g, SQL Server, My SQL, PostGreSQL |
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Requirements Management support: Support Custom "Requirements" elements, aggregation, composition and nesting of requirements. Change Management and Version control support to view traceability and help manage requirements development through to deployed components |
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Import/Export of Models in XML format |
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Support for Testing: Unit tests, Integration tests, System tests, Acceptance tests |
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Support for Maintenance: Change control details; maintenance and fault recording; track issues and defects |
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Support for Project Management with detailed support for attaching resources to elements such as Use Cases, components, packages, sub-systems etc. |
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Support for Use Case Metrics - allows project resource and time estimation based on given metrics |
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Support for generating Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) 1.1 from BPMN 1.1 models |
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Business Rules Modeling, Advanced Behavioral Modeling and executable Code Generation |
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Model Driven Architecture support for transforming simple model elements into complex targets |
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Fully featured Automation interface for scripting EA and writing complex plug-ins |