Mar 062014
 
Manual MagicDraw and JIRA Integration

MagicDraw and Atlassian JIRA are popular products, which usually can be spotted in software collection of enterprise. So a natural and common question rises, how they can work together? In most cases JIRA serves as an issue tracking system with the ability to have custom workflows, approvals, states, etc. MagicDraw in most cases is used […]

Feb 172014
 
Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) Importer

Make requirements first class citizens in the modeling world. Requirements are gathered and managed in dedicated requirements tools. When it comes to requirements refinement and integration with business, software, and system architecture, different requirements interchange formats are used. It can be comma separated value, MS Excel, Word, or XML. These are nonstandard ways, which bring […]

Jan 062014
 
Automatic Web Publishing from Teamwork Server

The information dissemination and exchange for many our clients is very important and should be up-to-date. This is the reason why many of them are using Web publishing features and sharing Web based reports of their MagicDraw projects in the Intranet (i.e. within the organization), Extranet (between the organization and its business partners), or even […]

Dec 172013
 
Requirements Writing in SysML Guide

This document proposes structuring and styling rules that help writing requirements using the SysML language as well as specific MagicDraw capabilities that support this process. Prerequisites: basic MagicDraw knowledge; basic knowledge of the SysML language requirements part. The biggest issue users have when they start writing requirements using the SysML language is that there is […]

Dec 172013
 
Best Practices for Applying UML, Part I

Though UML notation is widely recognized as lingua franca for software development, many developers still lack skills for applying it efficiently. Methodologists, practitioners and tool vendors need to share their experience in order to find out ways how to get the most use from modeling and avoid abusing it. With this whitepaper, we start a […]