EA and SysML for Systems Engineering
Course Description:
This course is aimed at systems engineers who are new to both SysML and Enterprise Architect. It covers the core SysML diagram types and provides delegates with experience of creating and structuring these diagrams within Enterprise Architect.
Prerequisites:
No prior Enterprise Architect or SysML experience is required.
A background in systems engineering is helpful.
Equipment:
For on-site delivery the customer should provide a suitable training room with a screen or projector to connect to our trainer’s laptop and a whiteboard or flipchart. All delegates require a PC or laptop running Enterprise Architect.
For webinar delivery delegates require a PC or laptop running Enterprise Architect with an Internet connection (a headset can be helpful). If you wish to test your environment join a test WebEx meeting: www.webex.com/test-meeting.html
A trial version of Enterprise Architect is fine for training and can be downloaded from Sparx Systems website: www.sparxsystems.com/products/ea/trial.html. It is also helpful to have a mouse as this makes creating diagrams much easier.
Course Style:
40% theory, 60% practical.
Each module is accompanied by paper and hands-on exercises to allow delegates to apply the theory and become confident using Enterprise Architect.
Delegate Handouts:
Each delegate receives a folder containing all the course slides and comprehensive theory notes which form excellent reference material. Folders also contain exercises and suggested solutions. Following successful completion of the course each delegate receives a certificate.
Course Modules:
- Delegate background and objectives
- Timetable and course outline
EA Teaching – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 1.5 hours
- Introduction to EA
- Navigate the EA user interface
- Create project models in EA
- Create diagrams in EA
- Understand the structure of EA projects
- Create and delete elements in EA
- Search for elements in EA
SysML Teaching – 0.5 hour
- Advantages of graphical notations
- History of SysML and UML
- Key SysML diagrams
- Process and capture requirements
- System structure and dynamics
EA and SysML Teaching – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create requirements diagrams in EA
- Importance of managing requirements
- Differentiate needs from solutions
- Requirements traceability
- Strategies to control scope creep
- Document requirements
- Document requirements in EA
- Requirements levels and relationships
- Relate requirements in EA
- Set requirements priority and status in EA
- Categorise requirements
- Define requirements categories in EA
- View list of requirements in EA
- Import and export requirements in EA
EA and UML/SysML Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1.5 hours
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create use case diagrams in EA
- Comparison with traditional requirements
- Workshops and GUI prototypes
- Model users as actors
- External systems and timers
- Actor definition and notation
- Actor generalisation
- Create and document actors in EA
- Use case and scenario definition
- Use case notation
- Use case diagrams
- Define use cases in EA
- Colour code use case status in EA
- Organise the use case model in EA
EA and UML/SysML Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Use case specification
- Document scenarios in EA
- Use cases drive development
- Generate activity diagrams in EA
- Generate test cases in EA
- Include relationship
- Extend relationship
- Use case inheritance
- Add use case relationships in EA
EA Teaching – 0.5 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Add requirements to use case or activity in EA
- Create realize relationships in EA
- Drag and drop requirements in EA
- Diagram to demonstrate traceabilty in EA
- Traceability window in EA
- Matrix to cross-reference requirements in EA
EA and SysML Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 1 hour
- Create block definition diagrams in EA
- Block definition and notation
- Block value properties
- Value types, quantity kind and units
- Add blocks and value properties in EA
- Reference and part relationships
- Create reference and part associations in EA
- Block classification hierarchies
- Model classification hierarchies in EA
- Operations and receptions
- Define block behaviour in EA
- Ports and interfaces
- Add ports and interfaces in EA
EA and SysML Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.5 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create internal block diagrams in EA
- When to create internal block diagrams
- Internal block structure
- Part and reference property instances
- Roles and multiplicity
- Add part property instances in EA
- Connect parts in EA
- Ports and interfaces
- Items for information flow
- Define ports and conjugated ports in EA
- Model item flows in EA
EA and SysML Teaching – 0.5 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create parametric diagrams in EA
- Constraint blocks
- Define constraint blocks in EA
- Parameters on constraint properties
- Input and output parameters
- Models equations and formulae
- Add constraint properties in EA
- Add parameters in EA
- Connect parameters in EA
EA and UML/SysML Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 0.5 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create activity diagrams in EA
- Document business activities and workflow
- Model sequential actions
- Add actions and control flow in EA
- Decision and merge (conditional logic)
- Fork and join (parallel logic)
- Model decisions and parallel actions in EA
- Object states and action pins
- Add action pins in EA
- Send, accept and time signals
- Model send, accept and time signals in EA
- Swimlanes for responsibility
- Use swimlanes or partitions in EA
EA and UML/SysML Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 1 hour
- Create sequence diagrams in EA
- Object notation and lifelines
- Message passing and sequencing
- Actors and the system boundary
- Add objects, messages and returns in EA
- Communicate using interfaces in EA
- Asynchronous messages
- Show asynchronous messages in EA
- Create and delete objects
- Create and destroy objects in EA
- Interaction frames for loops and decisions
- Use fragments for logic in EA
- Centralised versus distributed control
EA and UML/SysML Teaching – 1 hour
Paper Exercises – 1 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create state machine diagrams in EA
- When to use state machines
- Object lifecycles and states
- Transitions, events and actions
- Guard conditions
- Add states and transitions in EA
- Define events, conditions and actions in EA
- Entry, exit and do events
- Internal actions and self-transitions
- Add entry, exit and do events to states in EA
- Nested states and the history symbol
- Show nested states and history in EA
EA Teaching – 0.5 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create composite elements in EA
- Define stereotypes in EA
- Use tagged values for custom properties in EA
- Nominate a template package in EA
- Create custom searches in EA
- Define model views in EA
- Filter diagrams in EA
- Define working sets in EA
EA Teaching – 0.5 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Use a shared network drive for EA
- Create replica projects with EA
- Connect to DBMS repository or cloud with EA
- Packages and responsibility in EA
- Enable security in EA
- Import and export XMI with EA
- Integrate EA with version control system
- Baselines and differences in EA
- Enable auditing in EA
- Conduct team discussions in EA
EA Teaching – 0.5 hour
EA Hands-On Exercises – 0.5 hour
- Create project glossary in EA
- Generate MS Word, RTF or PDF from EA
- Select document options in EA
- Create document templates in EA
- Produce HTML reports from EA
- Customise HTML templates in EA