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11 Jan 2005 |
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Book excerpt: "Web Services and Contemporary SOA: Advanced Messaging, Metadata, and Security" (Chapter 7)*
from The Rational Edge: From a new book that provides a full tutorial on SOA modeling and design, this excerpt covers advanced concepts related to addressing, reliable messaging, metadata exchange, security, and more.
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15 Aug 2005 |
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Book Excerpt: "An Introduction to the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition" from Building J2EE Applications with the Rational Unified Process
from The Rational Edge: Bridging the gap between books describing IBM Rational Unified Process, or RUP, and those describing the J2EE platform and its associated technologies, this work shows how to use a subset of RUP to build J2EE applications, providing both a metaphorical and literal map through the complex world of J2EE, UML, and RUP.
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15 Sep 2002 |
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"Software Creation Industry" (Chapter 7) from Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry
from The Rational Edge: This chapter on the Software Creation Industry is from a new book that provides both technical and non-technical perspectives on software development. Examining the internal structure of the industry, the chapter describes how firms work together to create viable software solutions.
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05 Feb 2004 |
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30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational Requirements Composer: 30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational Requirements Composer Part 3. Templates
Learn how to use IBM Rational Requirements Composer to create templates from artifacts and to reuse existing templates easily in other projects.
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18 Jun 2009 |
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15 Dec 2003 |
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Book Review: Developing Enterprise Java Applications with J2EE and UML
from The Rational Edge: Review of a book providing a high-level overview of J2EE, UML, and how to evolve UML-based representations of J2EE systems using the Rational Unified Process, or RUP.
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15 Aug 2002 |
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Book review: Learning XML: (Guide to) Creating Self-Describing Data
from The Rational Edge: Review of a book pitched to experienced Web developers, which the reviewer believes could have been titled "XML Inside Out."
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27 Apr 2004 |
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Book review: Software Leadership: A Guide to Successful Software Development
from The Rational Edge: Philippe Kruchten's review of Murray Cantor's book: "...to really manage, as opposed to simply administer, good managers must understand the nature of what their team is producing, the dynamics of the team, the tools and processes they use, and all the risks associated with development -- i.e., anything that can hinder success."
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29 Apr 2004 |
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Book Review: The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level
from The Rational Edge: A favorable review of Tichy's book, which lays out six principles for the "Leadership Engine": Teaching, Learning, Ideas, Values, Energy, and Edge.
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30 Apr 2004 |
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A CMMI Maturity Level 2 assessment of RUP
from The Rational Edge: This article examines how well the IBM Rational Unified Process (now available as part of the new IBM Rational Method Composer) can help software development organizations achieve a higher process maturity level. It assesses RUP coverage in teams of process areas defined by Level 2 of the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and identifies areas to supplement in RUP in order to compensate for the gaps.
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15 Dec 2005 |
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A Project Manager's RUP in review
from The Rational Edge: Read how the IBM Rational Unified Process, or RUP, complements the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), and how project managers well-versed in PMBOK can use and understand RUP to support the Project Manager (PM) role.
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15 Apr 2008 |
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A RUP-based approach to developing a data warehouse --
Part 1: Setting the stage
from The Rational Edge: This two-part series overviews how to take an IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP)-based approach to data warehouse (DW) projects that reduces both your business and technical risk while delivering a high-quality solution that meets the changing needs of its end users. This article overviews the problems associated with a traditional, serial approach to DW development, describes how the evolutionary approach of RUP is much better suited, and overviews the initial phase of such a project.
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15 Nov 2006 |
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A RUP-based approach to developing a data warehouse --
Part 2: Building the data warehouse, one iteration at a time
from The Rational Edge: This second article in a two-part series describes the activities which occur during the Elaboration, Construction, and Transition phases of a Rational Unified Process-based approach to DW projects.
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15 Nov 2006 |
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A brief history of Eclipse
from The Rational Edge: In the late 1990s, IBM began development of what we now know as Eclipse. This article reviews the inception and growing acceptance of this popular computing platform, illustrating the role Eclipse plays in today's development tool arena.
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15 Nov 2005 |
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A case study using IBM Rational Manual Tester
Manual testing is sometimes still called for in a test-automated world, particularly in situations where the cost of automation outweighs the benefits. This case study details the use of IBM Rational Manual Tester in one such situation.
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20 Jun 2005 |
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Explore model-driven development (MDD) and related approaches: A closer look at model-driven development and other industry initiatives
In this article, learn about model-driven development (MDD) in the context of other related initiatives in the industry. Compare software factories, domain-specific languages, and the MDD approach. Explore visualizing development artifacts as models and executing models directly with an executable Unified Modeling Language (UML) approach.
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14 Mar 2006 |
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Working with the Enterprise Service Bus and Mediations, Part 1: A guide to create, deploy, and test mediations
This article introduces the concept of mediation in the context of the System Integration Bus, all-new to the recently released IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.0 (WAS). Mediations are part of the smart infrastructure that enables better application integration by processing in-flight messages as they are being delivered from producers to consumers. This article describes how to write your first mediation and attach it to a destination. The mediation will reroute messages to a different destination. We will show you step-by-step how to create, eploy, and test the mediation. In part two, we will explore mediations in more detail, looking at ways to link various mediations together, parameterising and configuring them at different levels.
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22 Feb 2005 |
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A guide to successful PPM implementation
from The Rational Edge: This article provides a high-level overview of IT project portfolio management and takes a general look at the PPM vendor market. This is followed by some guidelines on how to proceed to have a better chance of successful PPM implementation and get the most out of the solution.
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16 Jan 2006 |
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Architectural manifesto: A look at the future of software development and application building
This installment takes a break from agile topics and instead looks into
the future of software development. Explore how the evolution of tools,
technologies, methods, and customer demands might shape the future of the
industry. Current trends could cause software
development to diverge into two distinct forks, or roles.
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30 Sep 2008 |
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A multi-disciplinary approach to the software engineering process
from The Rational Edge: Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies are more effective when managers complement them with techniques borrowed from non-IT disciplines. This article suggests ways to use such techniques along with Rational Unified Process, or RUP.
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15 Nov 2004 |
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A primer on ClearQuest integrations
ClearQuest expert Mike Exum explains how to approach almost any ClearQuest integration project, discussing the basic design issues and other considerations one must face.
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25 Nov 2003 |
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A resounding "yes!" to agile processes -- but also to the "next big thing"
from The Rational Edge: Development teams should not slavishly follow a predefined process, argues software guru Ivar Jacobson. Instead, the key is to continually adjust the process as you go by reflecting on what you're learning, what works, and what doesn't. In this article he discusses other properties of a good process that go beyond traditional notions of agility.
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15 Mar 2002 |
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A roadmap to method development
from The Rational Edge: This article describes an iterative, risk-driven, architecture-centric, and quality-oriented approach to method development derived from the long-term experience of the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) development team. It first describes the work products to be produced, and then lays out a step-by-step roadmap for applying the approach throughout a method development project. The approach utilizes software development and RUP principles, and can be implemented using IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC).
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15 Feb 2007 |
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A self-starter's deployment kit for ClearCase LT
Considering adopting IBM Rational ClearCase LT? Then first get familiar with how to deploy it to your team. The newly updated IBM Rational ClearCase LT Deployment Kit presents one of many deployment solutions for ClearCase. This kit is designed especially for self-starters and helps enable the user to manage and resource the deployment themselves or with IBM Rational's assistance. The kit packages core deployment activities as "services modules" and provides guidelines for each module, with tips and best practices for conducting the activity described. Using this kit can significantly reduce your deployment costs.
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11 Nov 2005 |
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A self-starter's deployment kit for RequisitePro
Considering adopting IBM Rational RequisitePro? Then first get familiar with how to deploy it to your team. The newly updated IBM Rational RequisitePro Deployment Kit presents one of many deployment solutions for RequisitePro. This kit is designed especially for self-starters and helps enable the user to manage and resource the deployment themselves
or with IBM Rational's assistance. The kit packages core deployment activities as "services modules" and provides guidelines for each module, with tips and best practices for conducting the activity described. Using this kit can significantly reduce your deployment costs.
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11 Nov 2005 |
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A simple pattern for requirements analysis
This article describes a pattern to transform business stakeholder
requirements into a set of use cases. With this reusable pattern, you can
identify business and IT processes, activities, and functions. An
example applies the pattern to a pizza ordering
system.
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12 Aug 2008 |
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A simple tool to manage manual testing
In the past, manual testing has largely been overlooked by tool companies, even though it's important to software quality assurance efforts. Finally, IBM Rational Manual Tester gives testing staffs a tool to manage creation and maintenance of manual test scripts.
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14 Nov 2005 |
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A simplified approach to RUP
With RUP being such a heavyweight process, it may seem like the 800-pound gorilla to the unfamiliar. Gary Evans points out that the philosophy is simple, and that the process exists to serve you, not the other way around. Sound too good to be true? Read on for more.
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18 Nov 2003 |
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A successful model for large-scale virtual training
from The Rational Edge: Time and money are two stumbling blocks to conventional classroom training. Leveraging its Communities of Practice expertise, IBM Rational developed a successful online training model that incorporates hands-on collaboration. This article describes this new approach.
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15 Mar 2009 |
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AUTOSAR System Modeling in IBM Rational Systems Developer
AUTOSAR integration with IBM Rational Systems Developer enables you to model automotive systems. It supports both UML-based modeling and domain-specific modeling of AUTOSAR-compliant automotive software. The tool also supports bi-directional model-to-model transformation from UML to DSL, giving you the flexibility to author in either environment.
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12 Aug 2008 |
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About the Rational Asset Manager Exchange
You can use the exchange to discover assets that can be helpful in your set-up and administration of Rational Asset Manager.
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22 Dec 2008 |
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Accelerate and automate the build process
This tutorial introduces you to Ant and its existing integration with ClearCase. It describes how to extend the integration by creating new tasks. You'll also see real life examples of the integration in action.
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11 Jun 2004 |
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Accelerate software development on Linux with the IBM Software Development Platform
from The Rational Edge: This article discusses how the IBM Software Development Platform can help organizations create business value by accelerating their software development capability on Linux.
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15 Feb 2004 |
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IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Accelerated JSF development for XML-based SOA using Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Application Server -- Part 1
This article series presents a solution that accelerates presentation development for XML-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. This solution includes an Eclipse feature that enables the generation of statically typed Service Data Objects (SDO) for an XSD Schema, and provides a runtime framework for using SDOs in the transformation of presentation element data to and from XML data.
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01 Dec 2004 |
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IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal: Accelerated JSF development for XML-based SOA using Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Application Server -- Part 3
This is Part 3 in a series that presents a solution that accelerates presentation development of XML-based Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) applications. This solution includes an Eclipse feature that enables the generation of statically typed Service Data Objects (SDO) for an XSD Schema, and provides a runtime framework for using SDOs in the transformation of presentation element data to and from XML data. Part 3 highlights common techniques for manipulating SDO instances.
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23 Feb 2005 |
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Accelerating J2EE development with Rational XDE
from The Rational Edge: To get full benefit from Rational XDE, you need to understand its powerful internal J2EE design patterns and code templates, which you can either use as is or customize. This article illustrates how to use these Rational XDE capabilities by walking you through a simple J2EE project.
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15 Nov 2002 |
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Access IBM Workplace Collaboration Services using Web services
IBM Workplace Collaboration Services (IWCS) provides collaborative services that can be used in your applications. These collaborative services are available to you via Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Service Provider Interfaces (SPIs). A majority of these services are also available via Web Services. In this tutorial you will explore the steps required to access these collaborative services using Rational Application Developer to build your client applications. Two examples show you how to access two separate services exposed by IWCS server.
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15 Nov 2005 |
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Access a Web service using Flex 2 in Rational Software Architect V7
See how easy it is to access Web services using Adobe Flex 2. Flex uses a combination of ActionScript and XML to create powerful, user-friendly applications.
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04 Dec 2007 |
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Rational Data Architect skills series, Part 1: Access and integrate enterprise metadata with Rational Data Architect
IBM Rational Data Architect (Data Architect) works with WebSphere Information Integrator to give data architects and application developers the ability to discover, model, visualize, relate, and develop data assets across distributed and diverse data sources. In this tutorial, you follow a simple scenario to learn how Rational Data Architect can be used to provide a modeling and design tool to create a unified, virtual view across heterogeneous data sources.
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25 Jul 2006 |
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Accessing data with JSF portlets: Use WebSphere Studio for easier access to data objects
Learn how to create portlets using the new visual development functions in WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5.1.2 and Portal Toolkit V5.0.2.2. In particular, you'll use: JavaServerTM Faces, WebSphere Data Object, and Click-to-Action. We'll apply these features to create a sample auction database portal. The programming models and runtime frameworks, along with new easy-to-use tools, make it easier to build applications running on WebSphere Portal. Some of this technology is so new that it is for prototyping purposes only. However, learning about it now will help you prepare so you can implement it when it is available
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25 Jul 2004 |
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Accessing the ClearCase Automation Library from ClearQuest hooks
Enhancing the IBM Rational ClearQuest schema by using stateless record types to create choicelists can help eliminate errors from manual entry in multiline text fields.
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10 Apr 2007 |
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Achieving Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) maturity level 4
Do you want to know what the missing overall stories are about CMMI? Judith M. Myerson gives an overview of the CMMI with a focus on compliance, risk and governance at each maturity level, and shows you what IBM Rational Software Solutions help achieve maturity 4. She briefly covers the hybrid approach by overlapping CMMI with Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
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27 Feb 2007 |
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Achieving Quality by Design
from The Rational Edge: A discussion of the diagrams used for modeling with the UML (Unified Modeling Language), and a look at how using UML models can help software teams achieve Quality by Design.
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15 Sep 2001 |
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Achieving governance goals with GQM
from The Rational Edge: Read how the Goal-Question-Metric Approach (GQM) provides a way for whole teams, or individual team members, to better understand the role they play in successful software development.
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15 Mar 2008 |
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Activity Diagrams: What They Are and How to Use Them
from The Rational Edge: Typically used for business process modeling, activity diagrams are also useful for system modeling. This article shows how to use them for both purposes within Rational Unified Process.
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22 Apr 2004 |
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Comparing and merging UML models in IBM Rational Software Architect: Ad-hoc modeling – Fusing two models with diagrams
IBM Rational Software Architect Version 7 has a Combine Models command that allows you to combine two ad-hoc models into a single model that can be carried forward into version control. The source and target models appear in a dialog, where elements are aligned, unique elements are marked for inclusion in the final set of semantic elements, and names are adjusted as necessary.
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13 Mar 2007 |
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Effective software testing and software quality, Part 5: Add the test script to a test suite and execute it
This demo takes the automated test script previously created, links it back
to the test case, and then adds it to a test schedule, executes it, and reports a
defect using Rational ClearQuest.
This is the fifth of
a seven-part series on effective software testing and software quality.
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28 Aug 2008 |
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Adding Rational Performance Tester assets to Rational ClearCase
Versioning Performance Tester assets in ClearCase can be challenging for testers. The reason is that Performance Tester assets can have multiple files associated with them and the relationships between the assets and associated files are not very clear. The three standalone utility scripts and specifications file available here can help.
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14 Jun 2005 |
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Adding security to your Web services digital signatures, Part 1
This demo shows how to expose a simple Java class as a Web service that requires digitally signed requests. You'll see how a generated client is tested and how the signed SOAP request is examined. And it's all done without writing one line of code.
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11 Jul 2005 |
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Software as a Service: Addressing Software as a Service challenges by using IBM middleware
Building a Software as a Service solution requires addressing a few key
technical challenges. In this demo, you will see how to address a number of these technical challenges through a set of architectural patterns exploiting key features in IBM middleware.
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26 Sep 2007 |
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Addressing crosscutting concerns for JSR 168 portlets using AspectJ
Use aspect-oriented programming (AOP) with your JSR 168 portlets to deal with requirements that span multiple portlets, such as logging and sharing of data.
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12 Apr 2006 |
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Administration hooks
Sample hooks for users of IBM Rational ClearQuest.
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19 Apr 2004 |
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Adopting ODC to improve software quality: A case study
from The Rational Edge: See how Orthogonal Defect Classification, or ODC, can improve software quality by offering testing teams a more detailed look at the defects they uncover throughout the software development lifecycle.
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15 Aug 2006 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 1
Mikko Kontio is back with his Architectural manifesto column.
Learn how an organization can move toward using agile processes and about issues related to the
resulting changes. In this first article on the topic, find out what
agile processes are, the benefits of using them, and the requirements placed on the
organization that implements them. Next month, Part 2 will discuss the use of agile
processes in different kinds of companies, including old and new, and how small and large projects
affect the customer and seller experience.
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18 Mar 2008 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 2
In Part 2 of this series, learn how agile processes are used in different
kinds of companies, in small and large projects, and how agile development can
affect the customer experience.
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22 Apr 2008 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 3
In Part 3 of this series, learn about the role of stakeholders in an agile
process. This article discusses different types of traditional roles, as well as
the types of roles in the agile processes of extreme
programming and Scrum.
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20 May 2008 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 4
In Part 4 of this
series,
learn about how to define requirements in an agile environment. In all software
development projects, everything is based on requirements. Because agile development
emphasizes spoken communication over written documents and welcomes changes
late in development, traditional methods of writing requirements might not be
adequate. In this article, learn about agile requirements and how user
stories can help describe them.
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01 Jul 2008 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 5
In Part 5 of this series,
learn how user stories and Scrum can help you quickly develop a Web application.
Walk through an actual case study and see how user stories, discussion, and
prioritization can lead to fast beta versions. Find out how feedback from testers and users can be
incorporated into your product iteratively in sprints.
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22 Jul 2008 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 6
In Part 6 of this series,
learn about buying software development services from the customer's point of
view. While there's a lot of information for development teams about using
agile methodologies, there isn't much material about the customer's viewpoint
when buying software development services. Learn how customer incentives,
behavior, and the pricing models of a project have a huge effect on the
current and future success of a development project.
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26 Aug 2008 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 7
In this latest installment of the series,
learn about estimating work effort in an agile environment. Due to the nature
of software development, estimating work effort is usually difficult and often inexact. In this article,
explore some useful methods that can help you estimate work effort for your
agile projects.
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04 Nov 2008 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 8
In this latest installment of the series,
learn how to improve the quality of your agile process with modeling.
Modeling has many advantages in the development process. In this article, explore
some of the misconceptions of agile modeling, learn the characteristics of
useful agile models, and learn how to select the model to best fit your project.
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02 Dec 2008 |
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Architectural manifesto: Adopting agile development, Part 9
In this final installment of the series,
learn how an agile approach can help companies enjoy the benefits of SOA. In
our current economy, organizations are carefully analyzing which projects they
will implement, and which they will not.
SOA's reputation of being costly, in both time and money, doesn’t help in
getting new projects
started. In this article, explore how companies can quickly start enjoying
the benefits of SOA using an agile approach.
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20 Jan 2009 |
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Adopting and implementing RUP for a maintenance development cycle
from The Rational Edge: This article outlines a repeatable, two-step process for adopting RUP generally in an organization and implementing RUP specifically on a pilot project. The two steps involve two separate project efforts: the adoption of process and creation of a project infrastructure, and the implementation of the process activities, artifacts, and roles on a pilot project.
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15 Nov 2004 |
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Book review: Adopting the Rational Unified Process
from The Rational Edge: This review looks at a book directed at managers leading IBM Rational Unified Process, or RUP implementations, as well as other engineers and managers responsible for software development process. It covers the many new concepts and techniques RUP developers have added in recent years to assist this audience and draws on the authors' extensive experience with RUP implementations.
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15 Sep 2004 |
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Adopting use cases, Part 1: Understanding types of use cases and artifacts
from The Rational Edge: In Part 1 of this series, the author examines different types of use cases and artifacts, and talks briefly about how to introduce use-case techniques to a team that is unfamiliar with them.
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15 May 2003 |
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Advanced IBM Rational XDE Tester topics: working with the Object Map
Even with the new object map employed by IBM Rational XDE Tester, your scripts may stil have trouble recognizing objects in situations where an object's recognition properties are dynamic and where object hierarchies are dynamic. This article describes what you can do to handle these situations.
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10 Jun 2004 |
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Advanced XDE Tester topics: leveraging the power of regular expressions
One powerful facility in IBM Rational Functional Tester for Java and Web (XDE Tester) that enables testers to make their scripts more dynamic is regular expressions. This article describes a couple of different ways you can leverage the power of regular expressions in your test scripts.
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30 Mar 2004 |
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Advanced usage of the Typeahead control in Rational Application Developer V7.0
There is an ever-growing need for a rich user experience when it comes to Internet applications. An approach to Web application development that has been very successful and popular recently is to design Web applications using Ajax-style patterns. One of the Ajax features available in IBM Rational Application Developer is the Typeahead component. This article demonstrates the versatility of this component in a number of areas: Server-side dynamic result filtering, CSS customization, and JavaScript event handling using the JavaScript API. It takes you the Web developer beyond the most straightforward use cases and into more advanced Typeahead usage.
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06 Feb 2007 |
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Advancing toward test automation through effective manual testing
from The Rational Edge: As a first step toward software test automation as part of the development cycle, test teams can use IBM Rational Manual Tester to fine-tune and organize their most frequently used test flows, then automate these practices with IBM Rational Functional Tester. This article explains the essential steps and the benefits.
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15 Jun 2005 |
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Agile RUP: Experiences from the trenches
from The Rational Edge: This compilation of three brief articles by IBM Rational thought leaders describes how the IBM Rational Unified Process, or RUP, is not only "agile" in its own right, but also encompasses much of the guidance teams need to scale agile techniques successfully.
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15 Feb 2008 |
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Agile SCM and the IBM Rational toolset
from The Rational Edge: This article discusses the concept of Agile Software Configuration Management, a style of SCM geared toward agile development methods. It also describes how the IBM Rational SCM toolset can be implemented to support agile projects.
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15 Jun 2006 |
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Agile configuration management for large organizations
from The Rational Edge: Because of their size and organizational complexity, large companies need to embrace Agile development principles. Read how hundreds, even thousands, can work together efficiently within an Agile configuration management environment.
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15 Mar 2007 |
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Agile software development: A tour of its origins and authors
from The Rational Edge: Since 2001, the word "agile" has taken on a new meaning in the field of software development. Do you truly understand what Agile means? Written by a close observer and participant in Agile practice, this article considers the fundamental aspects of an increasingly important style of iterative, incremental development, and concludes with a thorough literature review.
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15 Mar 2007 |
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Agility comes of age
from the Rational Edge: This column traces the agile software movement’s growth and development, primarily by looking at changes in the attendees, sessions, and discussions at conferences devoted to XP and the agile movement.
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15 Oct 2004 |
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An IBM Rational approach to the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) -- Part 2: Systems View
from The Rational Edge: The second in a two-part series, this article describes the Systems View (SV) and Technical Standards View (TV) products of the Department of Defense (DoD) Architecture Framework (DoDAF). Part 1 of the article presents an overview of the DoDAF and describes the Operational View (OV) products.
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15 Apr 2006 |
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An IBM Rational approach to the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Part 1: Operational view
from The Rational Edge: The first in a two-part series, this article presents an overview of the Department of Defense (DoD) Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and describes its Operational View (OV) products. The author describes the relationships among the different views, and how the views can be leveraged both individually and collectively to add value in the modeling and design of complex systems.
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15 Mar 2006 |
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An Interview with Sam Guckenheimer, Rational's Senior Director of Technology for Automated Test
from The Rational Edge:Focusing on subjects ranging from software testing goals and the value of Rational testing tools to how XP (eXtreme Programming) addresses testing, this interview concludes with a look at trends that may affect future testing products.
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15 Feb 2002 |
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An Introduction to IBM Rational Unified Process for COTS Package Delivery
Building solutions based on Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) packages presents unique challenges. This presentation introduces a configuration of the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) dedicated to projects aiming at evaluating, recommending, acquiring, installing, configuring, fielding and evolving COTS package solutions. This RUP configuration is based on the CMU/SEI Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based Systems (EPIC) methodology.
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10 Nov 2005 |
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An MOF-based repository for enterprise architecture models
from The Rational Edge: This paper presents the work Unisys has done to create a central enterprise architecture (EA) at a large organization within the United States federal government. This work includes defining a standard core EA modeling language supported by the EA repository, and building transformations between tool-specific EA models to the standard core EA language. An overview of the IBM Rational tools used in the process is included.
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15 Mar 2005 |
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An Overview of the Systems Modeling Language for product and systems development -- Part 3: Modeling system behavior
from The Rational Edge: The third in a three-part series, this article describes how to apply SysML's behavioral diagrams and explains its allocation mechanism. A real-life example of an embedded system is used throughout.
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16 Oct 2006 |
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An agile experience report: A model for system test
from The Rational Edge: Many companies are embracing agile development practices as a way to improve the quality and timely delivery of their products. How to best execute a system test strategy in an agile development environment is a question every company and team may want to answer.
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15 May 2008 |
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An engineering paradigm for Service Oriented Architecture
This article presents an approach for using the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) framework in combination with Model Driven Systems Development (MDSD) to reduce risk in the development of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) components. It also touches on some of the pitfalls associated with SOA development.
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15 May 2007 |
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An enterprise process framework defined and delivered with IBM Rational Method Composer
from The Rational Edge: An enterprise process framework gives an IT organization visibility into critical business operations. See how IBM Rational Method Composer can be used to create such a tool for managing enterprise-wide complexity.
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15 Feb 2007 |
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Using BIRT reports with IBM Rational Method Composer: An intermediate-level example of creating BIRT reports
This article explains how to create a basic Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) report that extracts information from IBM Rational Method Composer, Version 7.2.
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17 Feb 2008 |
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An introduction to Model Driven Architecture
from The Rational Edge: In this first part of a three-part series, Brown examines the importance of models and modeling, introduces four key principles of MDA, and looks at the leadership role that IBM has played in defining the approach and its supporting standards.
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17 Feb 2004 |
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An introduction to Model-Driven Architecture (MDA)
from The Rational Edge: Over the past two years, the role of model-driven design in improving the productivity and quality of enterprise application development has been widely discussed, yet few documented experiences with the use of MDA styles of development are available. This paper provides a set of practical lessons derived from the design and use of an MDA toolkit at IBM. It highlights the key lessons learned from specific MDA practices, and it offers some observations on the MDA approach in general, including a brief discussion of follow-on work in progress.
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15 Apr 2005 |
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An introduction to Rational Policy Tester
This demo introduces you to the Policy Tester platform, how organizations deploy it, different user roles and how a user can interact with Rational Policy Tester.
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23 Jun 2008 |
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An introduction to architecture management
from The Rational Edge: Read how the IBM Rational team is expanding what has been traditionally called Analysis, Design, and Construction to include Architecture Management: the discipline of governing software architecture amidst changes to the requirements that drive it and the code that implements it.
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15 Dec 2006 |
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An introduction to model-driven architecture
from The Rational Edge: As an iterative development framework, the Rational Unified Process,or RUP, is flexible enough to suit a variety of project management styles. As RUP-based teams begin adopting model-driven architecture (MDA) strategies, they need to understand which roles, artifacts, and phrases within RUP require particular attention for successful MDA adoption.
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15 May 2005 |
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Modeling with Aspects: An introduction to modeling with aspects
Modeling with aspects takes a model-driven development (MDD) approach to simplify development with aspects. This approach to modeling with aspects involves annotating UML model elements with aspect keywords to address cross-cutting concerns at design time. Aspect code specific to the target environment is generated during the UML to target transformation. In subsequent articles, the reader will be introduced to the Aspects for MDD framework, which provides an implementation of this style of software development for AspectJ and Java development teams using IBM Rational Software Architect (RSA). This framework will allow the reader to easily package their own AspectJ-based mechanisms for a variety of cross-cutting concerns that can be introduced into an application during design modeling.
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27 Jun 2006 |
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An introduction to open computing, open standards, and open source
from The Rational Edge: This article examines the role of standards as well as the role of open source software in the market today.
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05 Jul 2003 |
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An introduction to runtime analysis with Rational PurifyPlus
from The Rational Edge: This article discusses runtime analysis in the context of other Rational best practices and outlines its enormous benefits to software developers, testers, and managers.
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15 Mar 2007 |
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An introduction to runtime analysis with Rational PurifyPlus
This article discusses runtime analysis in the context of other Rational best practices and outlines its enormous benefits to software developers, testers, and managers.
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19 Nov 2003 |
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An introduction to the IBM Rational design and construction tool strategy
from The Rational Edge: Now that Rational software is part of IBM Software Group, it is essential that we define a clear vision and strategy for fulfilling the Rational mission: to ensure customer success in creating software and systems that rely on software. This concise introduction to the Rational design and construction tools makes the strategy meaningful by providing a simple, conceptual view of the key areas of focus for Rational investment, and how that investment relates to the broader IBM Software Group initiatives and technologies.
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15 Nov 2004 |
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An introduction to the IBM Views and Viewpoints Framework for IT systems
In 1995 Philippe Kruchten of Rational Software Corporation published his now famous paper, The "4+1" View Model of Software Architecture. The paper presented a model for describing the architecture of software-intensive systems based on the use of multiple, concurrent views which allowed the concerns of various stakeholders of the architecture to be addressed. Since the publication of that paper many of its ideas have been incorporated in development processes such as the Rational Unified Process and standards such as the IEEE 1471 - Recommended Practice for Architecture Description of Software-Intensive Systems [IEEE1471]. In this paper we describe how the ideas put forward by Philippe Kruchten have been advanced in IEEE 1471 and subsequently incorporated into a new framework for describing systems based on the concepts of views and viewpoints.
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08 Jan 2008 |
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UML basics: An introduction to the Unified Modeling Language
from The Rational Edge: This introduction to the Unified Modeling Language, or UML, provides an overview of the most important diagrams used in the visual modeling of computing programs. The article is ideal for those who have little knowledge of UML concepts, including managers as well as novice practitioners.
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15 Jun 2003 |
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An overview of the Systems Modeling Language for product and systems development --
Part 2: Structuring the Rain Sensing Wiper system
from The Rational Edge: The second in a three-part series, this article illustrates how to create a structure diagram for a system using the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), a general-purpose, graphical modeling language for product and systems development. Part 1 introduces the language and describes its requirements, use-case, and test-case diagrams. Part 3 describes how to apply SysML's behavioral diagrams and explains its allocation mechanism. A real-life example of an embedded system is used throughout.
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15 Sep 2006 |
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An overview of the Systems Modeling Language for product and systems development --
Part 1: Requirements, use-case, and test-case modeling
from The Rational Edge: The first in a three-part series, this article introduces the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), a general-purpose, graphical modeling language for product and systems development. Part 1 describes SysML requirements, use-case, and test-case diagrams.
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15 Aug 2006 |
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An overview of the systems modeling language for product and systems development -- Appendix A
from The Rational Edge: This is the appendix for a three-part article introducing the Systems Modeling Language (SysML), a general-purpose, graphical modeling language for product and systems development. This Appendix (1) provides background on the real-life example of an embedded system that is used throughout the article, and (2) provides supplementary diagrams referenced elsewhere in the article.
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15 Aug 2006 |
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