Comprehensive claims for model-driven development

Rhapsody 6.0 uses a new graphical engine to dramatically improve user workflow, extending its design capacity with advanced formatting, ergonomics and drawing capabilities.

Embedded systems and software solutions provider I-Logix reckons the latest release of Rhapsody is the industry's most comprehensive UML 2.0 model-driven development (MDD) product.

Rhapsody 6.0 uses a new graphical engine to dramatically improve user workflow, extending its design capacity with advanced formatting, ergonomics and drawing capabilities.

A complete upgrade to the diagram editors provides an effortless workflow environment that goes beyond the Unified Modelling Language (UML) to allow the capture of any type of diagram relevant to the developer's domain.

Further simplifying the developers' task are additional graphical features such as bitmaps, rich text and hyperlinking, as well as enhanced formatting, presentation and printing functions.

Building on a compelling out-of-the-box experience, Rhapsody 6.0 provides a unique development environment where systems as well as software engineers can work in a way natural to their preferred methodology and even languages.

Rhapsody 6.0 also features The Rhapsody Gateway, an innovative requirements management component designed to provide seamless bidirectional interface with third-party requirements management tools including Requisite Pro, Doors, Word and Excel.

The Gateway is a complete traceability solution that allows users to link the Rhapsody model-driven development (MDD) environment with the original requirements, view and analyse coverage of those requirements, and examine the upstream and downstream impact of requirements changes in real time at any level.

Targeting the C developer, Rhapsody 6.0 delivers the benefits of model-driven development, allowing them to work comfortably in either a structured and/or object-oriented environment.

Using Rhapsody, the structured C programmer gains productivity enhancements by working with graphical files, functions and data in an environment that allows execution and debugging to be performed at the design level.

In addition, legacy and external C code can be imported in its original form for greater reuse of intellectual property (IP), and if desired, migrated to UML.

Full roundtrip capabilities for Rhapsody in C users allow maximum flexibility to work directly with C code.

Rhapsody 6.0 provides a unique development environment that is natural and easy to use for the C developer.

Focusing on mission critical certification, Rhapsody 6.0 provides the user greater control with a scalable and certifiable framework for C++.

The framework is model-based, originating directly from the Rhapsody model, providing component structure and functionality.

The user benefits from a framework that is customisable and certifiable for mission critical standards such as DO-178B, as well as fully scalable for applications with smaller footprints.

Enhancing the design for testability (DFT) capability, users can now automatically generate test vectors that offer the highest modified condition/decision coverage (MC/DC) code coverage possible for a particular design.

With Rhapsody Automatic Test Generator (ATG), another addon product available with Rhapsody 6.0, I-Logix extends model-driven development to include model driven testing, eliminating the need to manually develop test cases and streamlining the verification and validation cycle.

The automatically generated test cases can then be used for unit testing, integration testing and regression testing.

They can be exported as UML sequence diagrams to Rhapsody TestConductor, providing the user with a white box view of the test case execution.

Test cases can also be exported as complete test benches to third-party software manufacturers such as LDRA's TBrun and IPL's Cantata++, providing a seamless integration for black box as well as target based testing.

The resulting testing process not only significantly reduces the cost of quality by removing the need to manually define test cases, but also uncovers, very early on, logical errors and dead code that normally go undetected until very late, reducing management frustration and quality cost even further.

Rhapsody 6.0 includes renovations to the graphical editor featuring an all-new look and feel with advanced formatting options including custom colour UML 2.0 profile "skins", ensuring conformity across designs.

All UML diagrams within Rhapsody now have advanced white boarding capabilities, so that domain specific information outside of UML can be captured and maintained within the Rhapsody design environment.

High-resolution bitmaps may now be added anywhere in the design to replace UML elements for a more realistic and comprehensible systems design.

"Over the last few years market has accepted the value of UML based model-driven development".

"The main barrier to wider adoption of these solutions now is the complexity and usability of the tools".

"With Rhapsody 6.0 we set out to provide the best product in terms of usability and flexibility of different design approaches and skill levels", said Neeraj Chandra, I-Logix Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development.

"I am confident that users will find Rhapsody's out-of-box experience a significant improvement over all other tools currently on the market, making Rhapsody the tool of choice for embedded system and software development".

Rhapsody 6.0 supports Japanese menus, dialogs, and user messages, as well as dynamically loadable language resources making it the only tool truly accessible to a worldwide audience.

Now with rules-based reverse engineering for Ada, Rhapsody users can define exactly how to bring in their IP for model-driven development.

These highly usable features ensure that the developer is working in a natural, streamlined and comfortable environment, increasing overall productivity and quality.

Rhapsody 6.0 also offers instantaneous support for the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF).

Rhapsody DoDAF Pack, offered as an addon to 6.0, provides an advanced modelling environment to support the design, construction, and analysis of DoDAF-compliant architectures - ensuring consistency through allowing users to validate the architecture by executing the model, automatically generate many of the required products and reports, and achieve full traceability in its requirements driven environment.

The Rhapsody DoDAF Pack provides the industry's only comprehensive DoDAF solution.

It uses an industry standard notation, allowing users to define and construct DoDAF-compliant architectures in a single environment, drastically improving communication between the DoD, contractor and the supplier.

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