New features in IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.0 and Rhapsody Design Manager 4.0

Important new features

The IBM Rational Rhapsody development environment supports a wide range of technologies that can be used for many purposes, such as:

Demand analysis

Model-based system engineering

Trading Learning Analysis

Embedded and real-time software development

Security-focused software development

Model-based testing

AUTomotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR) development

Capture DoDAF or MODAF architecture framework

The rational Rhapsody 8.0 and rational Rhapsody design Manager version 4.0 contain new features and improvements that make it easier to apply Rational Rhapsody to these and many other solutions.

New guidelines for new users

Rational Rhapsody Version 8.0 provides a new Guide Me feature to help users configure and use Rhapsody for specific purposes. This is especially useful for new users who want to use Rhapsody to meet their specific needs. Guides are provided in tutorials, videos, and documents to help users perform the tasks they need.

Extended collaboration, flexibility, and control for system engineers

System engineers are trying to improve their process of inferring, communicating and specifying the overall system design, which often needs to be weighed on a variety of systems while still ensuring consistency across areas and disciplines. Rational Rhapsody Design Manager helps interdisciplinary teams by sharing, collaborating, and auditing engineering information in an efficient and intuitive way. With the integration of Jazz technology, Rhapsody design Manager version 4.0 goes further and simplifies the process by enabling system engineers to perform version, Variant, configuration, and change management of the Rhapsody model in a jazz-based repository. This supports fine-grained access and change control, providing a more flexible parallel development workflow for system engineers, which is closely associated with life cycle artifacts to respond more effectively to changes.

Common storage location for artifacts

Using a common location on the Jazz repository to store Rational Rhapsody design artifacts and other lifecycle artifacts, such as requirements and work items, helps to achieve tighter workflows with a larger system and software engineering life cycle. Because they are stored in a common location, requirements can be tracked and referenced along with design information, avoiding duplication because they are stored in a shared server-side repository. In a requirements management database (such as using IBM Rational DOORS or IBM Rational Requirements Composer) and design letters from the and designs information from the Rhapsody model Between the two, the realization of a single source of demand facts. By using the Open Lifecycle Collaboration Service (OSLC) link, you can establish traceability and analyze the relationships between requirements, design, and testing to ensure that you provide a high-quality design that meets your project goals.

New contributor roles with Rich lifecycle features

The new Rational Rhapsody contributor role supports access to change management, reporting customization, planning, design management, software configuration management, automation (build systems), requirements management, and test management capabilities.

Standards to help meet security-focused complex systems

Security-focused, complex systems, such as avionics, automobiles, trains and medical devices, contain more and more software. Companies that develop these systems need to follow industry-standard guidance, bring their products to market, and verify that their applications are compliant. The rational Rhapsody V8.0 contains an IBM rational Rhapsody Kit for ISO 26262 and IEC 61508, which provides a documented reference workflow, test cases, and other artifacts, including one for ISO 2 6262 and IEC 61508 's TüV SüD certificate, which involves using rational Rhapsody and rational the Rhapsody testconductor Add on to help users meet the automotive industry or general functional security Standard. The content can also be used in other industries, such as do-178b or do-178c, for the avionics industry, IEC 62304 for the medical equipment industry, and other safety standards.

Automation can be adjusted for a number of industry standards

Rhapsody is a highly flexible software that you can customize to help automate the delivery of designs that meet many industry standards. It contains updates to SysML 1.3, OMG Unified profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) 2.0, and AUTOSAR 3.2 and 4.0 for system engineers and car engineers to use the latest standard development solutions.

Applicability and performance improvements

Rational Rhapsody and rational Rhapsody design Manager Add a number of applicability and performance improvements:

Spell check

A statistical model query for model indexes

Generate code using multiple processor cores

Improved design approval workflow with change management

Cross-Project Search

Drawing sketches using a WEB client

Enhanced user experience and productivity with a solution-focused guide

The two key focus areas for each Rational Rhapsody version are applicability and performance. For new users, Rational Rhapsody 8.0 introduces a Guide Me feature to make the task easier to complete. Experienced users can leverage improved code generation performance, model metrics, spell checking, better customization options, and improved Rational team concert integration.

Guide Me Feature

You can use Rational Rhapsody in a wide range of systems engineering and software development applications in many different industries and fields.

The new Guide Me option helps new users quickly get started by providing a guide to performing a series of tasks associated with a solution. The guide uses text, tutorials, and video to guide User Configuration and application software to help reduce learning time and enable new users to work faster. The Guide Me description is currently available for the following topics: