Introduction to Rational Rose

Audience

This course is designed for analysts, developers and project managers who want to understand the value of Rational Rose to improve communications among team members through the use of standard language (UML), expose software development problems early and to manager software complexity.

Prerequisites

Students will be expected to have basic UML knowledge along with some knowledge of OO concepts. Some understanding of the Rational Unified Process would be advantageous.

Duration

2 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students will:

• Have used the Rational Rose tool Extensively.
• Understand the importance of setting up and using Rational Rose in a team.
• Have created several diagrams to gain basic modelling skills.
• Understand when and why specific diagrams are modelled.
• Have run several Rational Rose reports to identify model problems
• Have run some Rose scripts to demonstrate this powerful scripting language.
• Know the other resources available to them.

Course Content

Introduction
Course Overview
Review of the UML
Rational Rose concepts

Rational Rose Basics
Visual modelling
Views
Diagrams

Business Modelling
Use case diagrams
Activity diagrams
Object models

Analysis Modelling
Class diagrams
Sequence diagrams
Collaboration diagrams
Statechart diagrams

Design Modelling
Component diagrams
Deployment diagrams

Implementation Modelling
Libraries
Round trip engineering

Team based system development
Planning
Configuration management
Parallel development
Reuse strategies

Resources
Books
Web sites