ModelIntegra

Compared to informal text documents, model-based specification offers multiple advantages: Models have a precise semantics and can thus be automatically checked and processed. Usually, they are represented by comprehensive, easily understandable graphical description techniques.

However, a document-based approach has indispensable advantages, too. Documents can be read and reviewed in a straightforward way, and it is easy to print and archive them. Often, textual descriptions raise the intelligibility considerably, even if they don’t provide additional information to the reader.

The ModelIntegra Document Generator offers the best of both worlds: Based on clearly defined, machine-readable models, ModelIntegra generates uniform, high-quality, human-readable specification documents.

Advantages and Features

• Intelligent generation of uniform, structured and consistent functional specification documents, optimized for readability. Requirements analysts can focus on system functionality instead of document layout.
• Generation of understandable text for normal and variant interaction sequences based on activity diagrams. Analysts save efforts for manually creating and maintaining complex interaction sequences and numbering schemes.
• Generation of traceability artefacts (links, tables etc.) for various model elements (requirements, business functions, use cases, test cases, services etc.) Analysts save efforts, as there is no need to keep references and redundant parts in documents consistent by hand.
• Generation of self-contained documents for definable parts of the overall model. Automatic recognition of differences between subsequent versions of a document.
• Document export in different formats (MS Word, navigable HTML website). Generated text may be embedded within a user-provided document template.