SDL-News: URN tool: jUCMNav 4.1.0 now available!

jUCMNav 4.1.0 is now available!

jUCMNav is a free, Eclipse-based graphical editor and an analysis and transformation tool for the User Requirements Notation (URN). URN is intended for the elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation of requirements. URN combines two complementary views: one for goals provided by the Goal-oriented Requirement Language (GRL) and one for scenarios provided by the Use Case Map (UCM) notation.

Information and download:
http://jucmnav.softwareengineering.ca/ucm/bin/view/ProjetSEG/JUCMNavRelease410

Installation/Update via Eclipse (recommended)

• In Eclipse: Help --> Software Updates --> Find and Install --> Search for new features to install -> New remote site:
  • Name: jUCMNav
  • URL: http://jucmnav.softwareengineering.ca/jucmnav/updatesite/
• See the animated Installation Demo (for Eclipse 3.5)
  

Enhancements / Fixes since 4.0.0

This release contains many new functionalities, usability enhancements and fixes:

• NEW: Major usability enhancements for GRL intentional elements
  • Menu-driven selection of quantitative/qualitative importance values
  • Menu-driven selection of quantitative/qualitative initial satisfaction values in a selected strategy
  • Interactive, keyboard-driven increase/decrease of satisfaction values in a selected strategy
• NEW: Major enhancements to the handling of user-defined semantic rules and metrics
  • Improved GUI for rules/metrics management
    • Double-click support
    • Distinction between warnings and errors for rules
    • More robust checks during exports
  • NEW: 76 selectable rules for static semantics checking in 8 groups
    • GRL Consistency Completeness
    • UCM Consistency Completeness
    • URN Features for Software Product Lines
    • URN iStar Profile
    • URN Layout and Overlaps
    • URN Styles for Names and Descriptions
    • URN Unused Elements
    • URN Value Ranges
  • NEW: 29 selectable size/complexity metrics for URN models in 3 groups (GRL, UCM, Aspects)
  • NEW: Library of 119 predefined OCL functions for querying URN models
• Improved report generation
  • Unified preference page for reporting
  • Reports in PDF/RTF/HTML from the same Report Wizard
  • NEW: More complete set of UCM/GRL elements in the reports
    • Including GRL elements, metadata and URN links
• Clearer Export Wizard
• Various bugs and UI-related issues:

Bug	Description
695	Undoing the deletion of a GRL diagram while evaluating strategies cause an exception
698	UCM variable enumeration bug
700	GRL evaluation label not long enough
708	Add more default rules/metrics
709	Strategy/Scenario View not notified of file closed
710	Cannot rename groups rules/metrics, and exporting does not ask confirmation
711	Rules should be categorizable as errors or warnings, with appropriate icons
712	Metrics editor should not have a context String or a warning checkbox
713	Null Pointer Exceptions in tabbed properties
714	Null Pointer Exceptions when using intentional element with blank name
715	Event loop exception when adding a diagram

Feedback and contributions are always much appreciated!

Enjoy,


Daniel

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