Paul Krill
Editor at Large

Telelogic boosts UML for technical apps

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Oct 7, 20032 mins

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is getting a boost from Telelogic this week.

Telelogic this week is announcing Doors/Analyst, a UML modeling tool that operates within the Doors requirements management tool. The company also is shipping versions 2.2 of Tau/Architect and Tau/Developer, which are UML-based modeling tools.

Doors tools are used in development of applications for industries such consumer packaged goods, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and aerospace. Shipping at the end of the month, Doors/Analyst introduces UML modeling in the requirements management process. Requirements engineers and systems analysts can visualize requirements within the Doors database using UML 2.0 graphical diagrams, according to Telelogic.

Prior to Doors/Analyst, users of Doors had to switch to another tool to place in diagrams or use cases. “Now, you can create those directly within Doors/Analyst,” said Bill Shaw, vice president of lifecycle solutions at Telelogic.

Tau/Architect 2.2 and Tau/Developer 2.2 provide development teams with a model-driven architecture approach based on UML 2.0. Tau/Architect enables systems engineers to more effectively model the design of large, complex systems while Tau/Developer generates production-quality code for advanced or real-time applications based on verified models within Tau/Developer or imported from Tau/Architect.

Tau/Developer and Tau/Architect have been used for applications such as aerospace, automotive and defense-related systems.

New features in version 2.2 of the products include user-definable graphical symbols, or bitmaps; a graphical compare and merge feature and a UML 1x import facility, enabling legacy UML intellectual property to be reused.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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