White Papers

White papers provide in-depth technical discussion and best practice guidance on a wide range of modeling topics. The information presented by industry experts from the user community will help you learn new approaches to modeling and solving real-world problems using Enterprise Architect.
- on the 5th of January, 2012
Risk and Issue Management using Enterprise Architect and eaDocX
This paper considers the requirements for a robust project risk and issue management process and describes how Enterprise Architect and eaDocX can support this key project activity.
Project Management
Issue Management, Project Documentation, Project Management, Risk Management
- on the 19th of October, 2011
In our paper (full version available at http://www.es.tu-darmstadt.de/download/publications/anjorin/als2011.pdf) we describe the reasons and background for our decision to switch to EA as...
Software Development
Graph Transformations, meta-CASE Tools, Metamodelling, Model-Driven Software Development
- on the 12th of September, 2011
Combining the Service Oriented Modeling Framework (SOMF) with Business Process Modeling Notation
Describes the value of combining the Service Oriented Architecture notation provided by SOMF with the BPMN process modeling notation.
Business Process Modeling
BPMN, SOMF
- on the 29th of August, 2011
The UML is a popular modeling notation for programmers, but it is little used by database developers. Nevertheless, the UML is highly effective for high-level conceptual data modeling. The...
Data Modeling
class model, Data Modeling, IDEF1X, identity, modeling, UML
- on the 22nd of August, 2011
Data Modeling - From Conceptual Model to DBMS
Enterprise Architect supports comprehensive functionality for modeling database structures. This paper covers the core features for data modeling over the full lifecycle of an application.
Data Modeling
Data Modeling, DBMS, Forward Engineering, MDA Transform, reverse engineering
- on the 19th of August, 2011
The Master Class Series - Project Documentation Using Enterprise Architect
An important part of implementing Enterprise Architect, as an effective tool for agile analysis and design, is automating generation of project documentation. You need to be able to produce...
Documentation and Reporting
BSIF, Document Models, RTF Templates
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- on the 22nd of July, 2011
Design Driven Testing for Systems
Design Driven Testing (DDT) for software was first outlined in the book Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice (by Doug Rosenberg and Matt Stephens), and then...
Systems Engineering
design driven testing, SysML
- on the 11th of March, 2011
Design Driven Testing for ArcGIS Server Development
The attached presentation, from the recent ESRI Developer Summit, presents the design of the hotel mapping application, and discusses bugs that were detected and fixed before product...
Test Management
ArcGIS, design driven testing, ESRI, ICONIX, Java, mapplet
- on the 27th of January, 2011
Here is Chapter 7 of Design Driven Testing. This chapter focuses on Acceptance Testing, and leverages Enterprise Architect's Structured Scenario editor heavily to accomplish...
Test Management
acceptance test, Structured Scenario, Test Driven, testing, Use Case
- on the 8th of December, 2010
Here are several chapters from the new book "Patterns of Data Modeling". The book covers abstract patterns for modeling databases using the UML class model. The book is intended...
Data Modeling
class model, database, Database Design, pattern, UML