The second part of the blogpost series about the changes in SysML 1.4 presents the new concept to group elements. The use case is simple: Create a group of model elements: Okay, on the second thought there are some more: Update a group and Delete a group. And I’m sure that you’ll find some more…
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We are still waiting for the official release of the SysML version 1.4. The work on the update already finished several months ago. Due to some organization obstacles the official release is delayed. In April 2014 the OMG published a beta version of the SysML 1.4 and some tool vendors already published updates of their…
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My publisher just released the third edition of my book “Systems Engineering with SysML/UML”. To be exact it is the German version of my book “Systems Engineering mit SysML/UML”. Since the second edition 6 years have passed. In this time the language SysML, my MBSE methodology SYSMOD and MBSE in general have been further developed.…
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Activities are commonly used to describe the behavior of use cases. In SysML these are separate model elements: the use case and the activity. The use case is a specification of behavior. Whereas the activity is the definition of the implementation of the behavior. Instead of an activity you can also use interactions (sequence diagrams),…
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Now the SysML 1.3 reference card is also available in French. Thanks to Jean-Michel Bruel for the translation. You can download the reference card in English, German, and French language from the download section. Currently I work on the new SysML 1.4 version and will publish it as soon as SysML 1.4 is final.
How to use full ports and proxy ports and what’s the difference? SysML changed the way how to model ports with version 1.3 in 2012. (see also What’s new in SysML). Besides others the new version 1.3 introduced the concept of full and proxy ports. Full port A full port is an element of the…
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The previous posts Death of the Actor and Death of the Use Case reported about two serious killings in the modeling scene. Many eyewitnesses commented the report. Now it is time for a short review. First the good news: The concepts Actor and Use Case survived the massacre. I’ve seen them still alive and very active…
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It is very well unknown and I know only a single modeling tool that explicitly supports it: the SysML activity tree. Although it is very useful and supports common systems engineering practice. What am I talking about? You may know use cases and activities to describe the use case flows. Simply spoken they describe the…
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Models do not only contain the “real” artifacts for your system, but also additional auxiliary information like notes, issues, images, and so on (metadata). It is very useful to store such information at the place where you need or create it. Switching from one tool to another is a hurdle that prevents people from looking…
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