Catch Software

Topic: Using EA for producing Software Development Project Specifications at DEEWR
When: 13 December 2012, 16.00 – 17.30
Where: Dickson Room, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, ACT
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Using EA for producing Software Development Project Specifications at DEEWR

John Paul de Sousa and Aggie Zubowicz will be presenting on the DEEWR Employment Systems BAway and the use of Enterprise Architect for producing software development project specifications.

Our presenters have both contributed to the development of the Enterprise Architect repository structure and Enterprise Architect plugins, designed to support the work of DEEWR’s Employment Systems Group business analysts. These BAs develop applications hosted in the following infrastructures; smart client external and internal facing, websites, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SharePoint.

The presentation will focus on how Enterprise Architect has been structured and extended to allow the Analysts to do their requirements modelling work in a consistent manner, with the ability to output a variety of specification types.

John Paul De Sousa
John Paul is a Business Analyst at DEEWR who has worked with a variety of government departments as a business analyst on software development projects.

Aggie Zubowicz
Aggie has worked as a business analyst and tester, specifying and testing software to deliver capacity for employment service providers to implement government policy directed at assisting Australia’s job seekers maintain and keep meaningful employment.

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As always refreshments will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting. We look forward to seeing you for the last event of the year.

All welcome – No charge

24 October 2012 - Enterprise Tester Plus (ET+) adds additional services and support to large installations of test management software, Enterprise Tester.

Catch Software (www.catchsoftware.com), a leading provider of quality management solutions, today announced the release of ET+. This latest release of their flagship product, Enterprise Tester, adds additional services and support to enterprise-level customers, to ensure that they receive the best out of their quality assurance tooling investment. Additions include priority support, training and exclusive quarterly webinars. ET+ is the next step for those enterprise customers who want more from their test management partner.

“At Catch we are focused on providing smart solutions for quality management” says Founder and CEO, Bryce Day, “but great quality management is about more than just a tool a team uses. That has always been part of our approach. Since the release of Enterprise Tester back in 2009 we have focused on being responsive to our customers, helping them to improve their processes, and providing them with great training and support. ET+ is the next evolution. With over a third of our customers now large scale enterprise customers, we have seen increased demand for the services and support that wrap our quality management platform, Enterprise Tester. Our partners Atlassian have seen great success with JIRA Enterprise. We have seen a lot of our customers move to it so wanted to ensure they had the same great enterprise offering for, not just their issue management, but also for their quality management”

Atlassian echo these sentiments. "Add-ons like Enterprise Tester deliver highly complementary solutions for Atlassian’s 22,000+ customers" said Atlassian’s vice president of Atlassian Marketplace, Daniel Freeman. "We help innovators everywhere plan, build and launch great software and we're excited by Enterprise Tester's continued innovation within the Atlassian Marketplace of 1,300+ add-ons.”

With the new release of Enterprise Tester it looks to be an exciting time for Catch Software. Scaling to better support enterprise customers is just the latest in innovations that the team at Catch have delivered, and they show no signs of slowing down. 

ET+ is available for demo and purchase at: www.enterprisetester.com/etplus.

About Catch Software

Catch Software develops quality management software for the global market and counts Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers, including Intel, eBay, US Navy, US Airforce, Scotiabank, PayPal and Bayer, Philips and Navman, among its customers. Their flagship product, Enterprise Tester,  is an award-winning test management platform offering great features, responsive support, and great pricing.   Enterprise Tester has enterprise-level functionality, a low cost entry point, and integrates with world class tools including JIRA, Enterprise Architect, and Selenium to provide an integrated tool platform for software companies to run management their business.

Contact Information

Stacy Busek
Communications Manager
Catch Software
NZ: +64 9 303 2023 or US: +1 419 404 7432
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www.catchsoftware.com

Hot on the heels of last month's release of the REST API, the team at Catch Software are pleased to announce the release of Enterprise Tester 4.4. This latest release introduces new LDAP / sychronization features, enhancements to the API, project dependencies, and more...

LDAP Synchronization

We've wanted to add this feature for ages, so we're stoked to get it into 4.4... automatic LDAP synchronization and scheduling of user account creation is now here! You can automatically authenticate against LDAP as well as filtering and synchronizing your users, groups, and group memberships.

REST API Enhancements

Check out the changes to the REST API since our 4.3 release. You can now do user and group partial searches and project assignee searches, we've added support for CORS (cross-origin resource sharing) requests, and we have added more details in the in-app help.

Everything you need to get started with the API is right there are your fingertips.

Inherited Project Dependencies

Inherit project dependencies and picklist values from the organization with the click of a button. This new feature makes it quicker and easier to set up new projects and make global changes to Enterprise Tester.

Plus... heaps of enhancements.

As always we have added a truck load of enhancements to existing functionality in this release. Check out the full release notes to find out more...

Click here to get started with a FREE Enterprise Tester trial, which is valid for 30 days. You can also take advantage of our new hosted trials.

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The next EA User Group is taking place on the 20th of September at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Topic: Tools & Methods Supporting Cross Agency Interoperability
Date: Thursday, 20 September 2012
Time: 16.00 - 17.30
Venue: Dickson Room, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, ACT
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Brian Stonebridge, Director - Collaborative Services at Department of Finance and Deregulation will be presenting on Tools and Methods Supporting Cross Agency Interoperability at this next User Group. Come along to find out more about Enterprise Architect usage, get tips and tricks from your peers, and network with other EA users. More details to follow.

"Brian will make an excellent contribution to the next user group." Scott Hebbard, Sparx Systems

Refreshments will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting.

All welcome - No charge.

The next Canberra EA User Group is taking place on the 15th of March at the Australian National Botanic Gardens.

Topic: Using Enterprise Architect across the Business
Date: Thursday, 15th March 2012
Time: 16.00 - 17.30
Venue: Dickson Room, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, ACT.
RSVP: Please join the Cbr-EAUG Meetup Group to RSVP or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Enterprise Architect is a fantastic tool that allows you to model anything from development classes and database design, to your organisations enterprise architectural framework. While an organisation gets value from using Enterprise Architect in each of these spaces, the real value is when the whole organisation gets involved. From reuse of actors or roles while performing your analysis, to reuse of these same actors in your Human Resources department for your organisational structure, or even the job descriptions they create.

In this presentation Bryce Day is putting a focus on using Enterprise Architect in a business context. Walking you through a pathway of utilising the Business Motivation Model (BMM) and its interconnections across the Project Management Office (PMO) to a unique requirement in project.

Plus, we are excited to have Tom O'Reilly and Ken Harkin from Sparx Systems attending this meeting.

Refreshments will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting.

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The next EA User Group is taking place this Thursday, 15th of December at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. If you've already registered, we look forward to seeing you there. If not, there are still spots left so join the group and register to attend today!

Topic: Practical Applications of ArcGIS Geodatabases and Enterprise Architect

Date: Thursday, 15th December 2011

Time: 16.00 - 17.30

Venue: Dickson Room, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, ACT.

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This month we have two presentations from the team at Geoplex. Warwick Sayers will be presenting on the practical applications of ArcGIS geodatabases and Enterprise Architect, whilst Anthony Burgon will briefly touch on the modelling of spatial data and set the scene for Warwick - introducing some of the work that went into the spatial capability of Enterprise Architect and why it is important.

These look set to be two very interesting presentations focussing on the geospatial sector, in which Enterprise Architect is heavily used. Find out more about the presentations here.

Refreshments will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting.

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This month, Brent Lewis and Suzanne Maxted will present a case study of making architecture real and available using Enterprise Architect and the TOGAF extension - ‘Making Architecture Real: TOGAF Models in Enterprise Architect‘. Suzanne and Brent will show how the combination of tool and technique has made integrated architecture a valuable organisational asset used by wide-ranging stakeholders from product managers to engineers... more

Date:   Thursday, 17th November 2011

Time:   16.00 - 17.30.

Venue: Telecom, 42-52 Willis Street, Wellington [Go up the escalator to the first level and follow the signs to Client Central or ask the nice people at reception].

RSVP:   Please join the Wlg-EAUG Meetup Group to RSVP.

Refreshments will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting.

All welcome - No charge

If you would like to give a presentation at the next User Group, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Or if you have topic ideas, feel free to post a comment on the Meetup page.

This month Anthony Draffin, from the Department of Health & Ageing, is going to do a presentation on using and composing patterns in Enterprise Architect entitled ‘Patterns - More Than Mere Stencils’. This will be a topic that builds on core Enterprise Architect functionality -  Gang of Four Patterns - but expands it to analysis and workflow level patterns

Our second speaker, Will Francis, CSIRO, will be doing the second presentation on the use of Enterprise Architect on the Solid Ground software product. This presentation will look at the registry design principles which enable communities to develop, share, re-use and maintain modular information models across enterprise boundaries. Find out more here.

We're also pleased to announce that Tom O’Reilly, COO of Sparx Systems, will be attending this month’s User Group - a great opportunity to meet and talk with a senior member of the Sparx Systems team.

 Date: Thursday, 15^th September 2011
 Time: 16.00 - 18.00
 Venue: Dickson Room, National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, ACT
 RSVP: Please join the Cbr-EAUG Meetup Group to RSVP.

Refreshments will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting.

A new version of Enterprise Tester has just been released and this month we've added additional integration options into the product. 

This latest version offers integration into Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (TFS) for defect tracking and requirements capture, and if you're running Duette you can now import results from unit test frameworks and Selenium. New features include:

• Integration with Team Foundation Server (TFS) added for synchronizing incidents and requirements.
• Ability to change tester for in-progress runs added.
• Support added for import HTML Suite results from Selenium tests.
• Support added for importing results from unit tests frameworks (JUnit, NUnit, Gallio, Parasoft C++test, JSUnit & PHPUnit).
• And much more...  

What does this mean for Enterprise Architect users?

Enterprise Tester allows you to automatically create test scripts from the use case and requirements you have in Enterprise Architect, saving testers time and effort in creating them from scratch. Since you can now integrate Microsoft's Team Foundation Server (as well as Atlassian's JIRA) you have new option for your end-to-end tool chain.

On average integrating your tool chain equates to a saving of 60% of your test setup time, 4% of the total project cost, and better visibility of the relationships and dependencies between requirements, test scripts, execution sets, and incidents.

Check out the release page on the new Enterprise Tester website for more details, to read the full Enterprise Tester v3.4 release notes, or to download this latest release.

The Canberra Enterprise Architect User Group will hold its next meeting on Thursday, June 16^th 2011, at the National Botanic Gardens.

Enterprise Architect End User Review [DEEWR]

Date: Thursday, June 16^th 2011
Time: 16.00 - 17.30
Venue: Dickson Room, National Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Street, ACT

Notes: Head for the Visitor Information Centre which is prominently labelled and only a few metres from the venue.

This month the team at the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations will be presenting an overview of their development lifecycle. Focussing on the various add-ins and customisations to Enterprise Architect that they have implemented to support their tools, processes and practices. An opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the presenters and discuss and share their challenges and success stories with other users; it’s well worth coming along to the EA User Group.

Refreshments will be provided at the conclusion of the meeting.

If you would like to attend the Canberra EAUG please register your interest at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

All welcome - No charge