Re: [Topcased-users] How to get started?

topcased-users Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:31:34 -0700

Title: Raphaël FAUDOU

Hi Ray,

Your questions seem to be related with the process rather than the tooling.
The first point is to choose the language (the editor) and find an appropriate process to follow.
My suggestion is that you start with UML (as the most known modelling standard) and that you use the activity diagram to describe your procedure.
With activity diagram you will use action nodes (start with "callBehaviourAction" as you can refine the behaviour associated with those actions) and control flows between those nodes.

You can use activity partitions to separate the actions between the main roles involved in the procedure (workflow).
When you do not know the sequence, consider using "fork" and "join" controls to express that there is no sequence constraint in the flow.
If there are choices, consider using decisions
If you wait for some events or delay, AcceptEvent action or AcceptTimeEvent action are the best ways to formalize that

My two cents
raphaël

[email protected] a écrit :

I have read many documents on the website and this mail list and they
have all helped to motivate me.  I have seen a few tutorials on how to
use some specific tools.


I don't see how to get started.  I have setup 2.4.0.

I have two projects to address.  There is an international standard on
the design of safety instruments systems and I would like to design a
procedure to help design systems based upon this standard.  Then I would
like to use this procedure to design a system.

So my first task is the design the procedure.  I have read the document
(PDF) and tagged it with comments to indicate where each of the 340
requirements are called out.  I would like to refine and manage the
requirements.  Some of the requirements are things I have to do.  Some
are things others have to do, so I need to include them in a subcontract
requirements list or specification and have test to assure that I will
be getting what I asked for.  There are requirements for maintenance of
the final system that I don't need to execute but I need to provide for.
 So, it seems like I need to segment the requirements or the subsequent
function space.  Well, maybe this is too much detail for now but
hopefully this portrays a picture of what I am trying to do and my lack
of understanding of the tool (Topcased).  

I see that there are a variety of modeling tools.  It looks like
everything is done in these tools.  Is this correct?  Or are some things
done in the modeling tools and passed to another tool that I have not
seen yet?

I would really like some suggestions on:
1) How to get started?
2) Which tools would be most suited to my use?
3) Is there a convenient way to search this mail list, a different user
interface other than
http://lists.gforge.enseeiht.fr/pipermail/topcased-users/2007-December/thread.html?
4) What should be my overall path?

Thanks,

 Ray



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