Artisan works to improve models, display
October 20, 2009 —
Modeling company Artisan Software Tools has focused on adding model display improvements to its Artisan Studio modeling environment. It has also released a new automated model checker.
Artisan Studio 7.1, released Wednesday, introduces a template-driven document and report generator called Artisan Publisher. The templates can use external images and documents. The new version of Artisan Studio also has the ability to display models created from the recently standardized OMG Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF (UPDM). Artisan serves as the co-chair of the UPDM Group with OMG.
“With our leading role in the OMG’s standardization, we have provided some key features for improving the visual clarity of diagrams in Artisan Studio 7.1,” said Hedley Apperly, vice president of marketing at Artisan Software Tools.
Other new features in Artisan Studio 7.1 include an automated code synchronizer with C and C++ code transformation patterns that tries to improve productivity by reducing the time to develop new transformations. There is a new diagram presentation feature that can create modeling visual effects, similar to those in PowerPoint, according to Apperly. Such presentations can then be shown in Microsoft PowerPoint.
The tool’s UML capabilities have been expanded to better work with very large models, and there are new meta-types and symbols for UML modeling in Artisan Studio. Additionally, Artisan Studio 7.1 provides XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) interoperability with OMG’s Model Interchange Working Group Test Case 1 compliance. XMI is used to exchange metadata and for the serialization of models into languages other than XML.
In addition to Artisan Studio 7.1, the company also released a design reviewer called Artisan Studio Reviewer, which automates the task of checking SysML, UML and UPDM models for completeness and consistency.
“It sort of looks like a Web browser that comes with more than 100 preconfigured design review scenarios,” Apperly said. “Even a manager can review people’s models, and he or she can choose which tests you run and which ones you don’t. It shows you how many problems you’ve got, so it gives you a real view on how to create good models.”
Design reviews can be modified and reconfigured to suit a company’s specific design practices. They are also supplemented with user-defined reviews to meet unique requirements of a design project, Apperly said.
“As design projects progress through their life cycle, the time taken to fix errors gets exponentially longer, and it can be difficult either to justify the time needed to manually check every detail of a model for completeness,” he added. “Artisan Studio Reviewer replaces the previously manual task, which might otherwise have taken days, with an automated process that takes just seconds or minutes, even for large, complex models.”
Artisan has also established a content feedback program for Artisan Studio Reviewer, through which users can make recommendations for improvements and new reviews.
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