Developers

Round Trip Engineering

Enterprise Architect gives the developer unparalleled flexibility, with the ability to round trip software from existing source code to UML 2.3 models and back again.

Round trip engineering involves both forward and reverse engineering of code; keeping the model and code synchronized is an important aspect of this.

Code Engineering

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Estimation

Reverse Engineering

Enterprise Architect enables developers to reverse engineer code from a number of supported languages and view the existing code as Class diagrams, which illustrate the static design view of the system.

Class diagrams consist of Classes and interfaces and the relationships between them; the Classes defined in UML Class diagrams can have direct counterparts in the implementation of a programming language.

Reverse Engineering

Class Diagram

Class Element

Resources

Forward Engineering

As well as the ability to reverse engineer code, Enterprise Architect offers the developer the option of forward engineering code (code generation).

This enables the developer to make changes to their model with Enterprise Architect and have these changes implemented in the source code.

Code Engineering

Risk

Risk Types

Determine the System State

To visualize the state of the system the developer can use State Machine diagrams to describe how elements move between states, classifying their behavior according to transition triggers and constraining guards.

State Machine diagrams are used to capture system changes over time, typically being associated with particular Classes (often a Class can have one or more State Machine diagrams used to fully describe its potential states).

State Machine

Visualize Package Arrangement

Package diagrams are used to help design the architecture of the system; they are used to organize diagrams and elements into manageable groups, and to declare their dependencies.

Package

Follow the Flow of Code

Activity diagrams are used to enable a better understanding of the flow of code.

Activity diagrams illustrate the dynamic nature of the system, which enables modeling of the flow of control between Activities and represents the changes in state of the system.

Activity