In this course, students gain practical, hands-on experience with the Rational Rose(r) visual modeling tool. Students will practice all basic aspects of the tool and will leave the course with an understanding of Rose features and the value of visual modeling.

Audience

Software architects interested in using Rational Rose for Unified Modeling Language development.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the Unified Modeling Language and Object-Oriented concepts.

Course duration

1 Day

Course outline

1. The Task and the Tool
• The Task
• Modeling
• Models in Software Engineering
• Visual Modeling and UML
• CASE Tools
• Rational Rose
• Organizing the Model
• Perspectives


2. Use Case Diagrams
• The Use Case Model
• Building the Use Case Model
• Subordinate Use Cases
• The Narrative
• Associating Narrative with Use Case
• Saving the Model


3. Class Diagrams
• The Class Model
• Modeling a Single Class
• Modeling the Relationships Between Classes
• Deleting Model Elements
• Lines and Format


4. Interaction Diagrams
• Use Case Realization
• The Sequence Diagram
• Building Sequence Diagrams
• The Collaboration Diagram
• Building Collaboration Diagrams
• Converting Collaboration Diagrams into Sequence Diagrams
• Reports


5. State Diagrams
• The State Diagram
• Building State Diagrams
• Actions on Transitions
• Activities in States
• Superstates
• Concurrent State Machines


6. Activity Diagrams
• The Activity Diagram
• The Synchronization Bar
• Building the Activity Diagram
• Drilling Down
• Swimlanes


7. Package, Component, & Deployment Diagrams
• Packages
• The Component Diagram
• The Deployment Diagram


8. Appendix - Round-Trip Engineering and Team Development
• Round-Trip Engineering
• Forward Engineering
• Editing the Source Code
• Reverse Engineering
• Team Development with Rose
• Breaking a Model into Controlled Units
• Comparing and Merging Models
• Workspaces
• Print Diagrams