Rational Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers

Features and Benefits

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Architect for Systems Engineers is an integrated model based systems engineering environment for complex system engineering projects. It uses the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and Unified Modeling Language (UML) to help systems engineers quickly specify their requirements, architecture and design. The UML and SysML diagrams provide better understanding for project stakeholders.

The SysML and UML diagrams are more than just pictures, they provide interconnected views of a common model that remain consistent even when changes occur. A change on one diagram is propagated to another automatically. The solution features systems wizards, enhanced graphics support for user-defined graphics and a diagram navigator feature for large systems diagrams to help improve ease-of-use.

Additionally, Rational Rhapsody Architect for Systems Engineers offers static analysis capability to help assist model consistency and model completeness.

• Capture requirements, designs and behavior using SysML or UML
• View, review and comment on designs stored in Rational Rhapsody Rhapsody Design Manager for collaborative development across team
• Dynamically analyze and execute SysML parametric diagrams to assist in trade study analysis
• Automate tedious tasks with helpers from a systems engineering toolkit
• Static analysis check model capability to verify design consistency
• Tailored view for systems engineers
• Requirements analysis and traceability to design, implementation and test artifacts, helping you deliver the right product while quickly responding to change
• Perform export to IBM® Rational® DOORS® or IBM® Rational® RequisitePro® to manage traceability from requirements to design
• Author AUTOSAR 4.0 compliant systems to architect robust automotive systems
• Advanced requirement impact analysis, coverage analysis, integration with third party requirements management solutions available with the IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Tools and Utilities Add On
• Includes parallel development via a configuration management interface with the IBM® Rational® Synergy, Rational Team Concert and IBM® Rational® ClearCase® tools, plus other products
• Graphical differencing and merging of model elements function that can be integrated into your configuration management tool
• Re-use of IBM® Rational® Rose® models, helping to expand their functionality by providing execution and validation of those models
• Interface to synchronize DoDAF data specified in Rational System Architect with system and software design in Rational Rhapsody
• Customizable documentation generation through ReporterPlus feature of IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Tools and Utilities Add On or IBM Rational Publishing Engine.
• Extendible, customizable to help you integrate your current processes or third party tools so you can leverage your existing assets
• Support for DoDAF, MODAF and UPDM provided with the IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® for DoDAF, MODAF, and UPDM Add On

Requirements Engineering

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® environment assists teams by helping them gain better understanding of the requirements by visualizing them using standard UML or SysML Requirements are stored in the model and relations to design elements and test cases can be created, helping to provide traceability information within the model. Information from requirements such as the id or specification can be automatically generated into the code using Rational Rhapsody Developer or Rational Rhapsody Architect for Software to enable traceability from requirements, design in the model and implementation in code. Export of model information to IBM® Rational® DOORS® and IBM® Rational® RequisitePro®, is included through the Rhapsody Gateway feature.

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Tools And Utilities Add On includes advanced capabilities of the Rhapsody Gateway feature to help you benefit from a seamless bi-directional information exchange interface with third-party requirements management tools, including Rational DOORS and IBM Rational RequisitePro, and requirements authoring tools, including Microsoft® Word® — extending a complete traceability solution that assists developers to examine the upstream and downstream impact of requirements changes on any level in realtime.

The Rational Rhapsody Gateway traceability solution helps you with:

• Automatic management of complex requirements scenarios for intuitive, understandable views of upstream and downstream impact
• Accurate impact reports and requirements traceability matrices to help you meet the most strident industry safety standards
• Operates with the most popular requirements management/authoring tools, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft® Excel®, Microsoft® PowerPoint®, PDF®, ASCII, Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0+, Rational DOORS, IBM Rational, IBM RequisitePro, Borland CalibreRM, , Mathworks Simulink.
• Development flexibility using a bi-directional interface with third-party requirements management and authoring tools
• Rapid monitoring of all levels of the workflow to help improve project management and efficiency

Team Collaboration

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® solution offers you the flexibility to integrate design and development functions into one cohesive environment. By helping enable team collaboration, requirements traceability, design specifications reviews, automatic documentation generation and rapid prototyping of the system as it is being built, the Rhapsody solution helps improve quality, reduce time-to-market and increase productivity.

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Tools And Utilities Add On provides additional capabilities to help software developers improve the software development lifecycle, from initial concept to the finished product.

• Customizable documentation generation with Rhapsody ReporterPlus
• Automate documentation generation meeting company or industry standards
• Advanced requirements analysis and traceability capabilities with Rhapsody Gateway feature (see Requirement Engineering tab)
• Interchange model information using XMI for reuse between modeling tools
• XMI support validated at least through OMG Model Interchange Working Group (MIWG) test case 2
• Support for SOA design approach with generation and import of WSDL files
• Specify net-centric systems at a high level of abstraction and refrain from low level implementation details.
• Siemens Teamcenter Systems Engineering integration provides traceability from design environment to PLM

 

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