Objectiver editions

Objectiver is provided as a comprehensive requirements engineering solution covering needs of analysts at different levels of complexity. The following editions are available to meet your specific needs.

Objectiver Desktop (ODE)

ODE is a single-user environment deployed on a laptop. ODE is a java application saving the requirements model in XML. The following ODE editions are available:

• Standard edition (ODE-S). The Standard Edition is targeted to small- and medium-scale requirements engineering projects involving a single analyst and a few stakeholders.

• Professional edition (ODE-P). The Professional Edition is targeted to medium-scale requirements engineering projects involving a single analyst and many stakeholders. The Professional Edition adds productivity, quality control and reusability to the Standard Edition.

• Review edition (ODE-R). This companion Objectiver edition is dedicated to reviewing activites. The cost-effective review edition is targeted to stakeholders to support their reviewing efforts. With this edition they can browse through the model and annotate it without modifying its content otherwise. Annotations can later be imported in the original model using the Professional Edition.

Objectiver Web (OWEB)

OWEB is targetted to large organizations. It allows cooperative work  for modeling requirements. It complies with the client-server architectural paradigm on top of Web technologies with a front-end in Javascript, a server in Java and a relational database to store the model. 

Currently, there is only one OWEB edition. It aims to be eventually functionnally equivalent to ODE-P.

Feature matrix

The following matrix compares the functionalities that are available in each version. In the following tables, cells with a colored background indicate a new feature in Objectiver V3.

Objectiver environment

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Contextual pop-up menu	•	•	•	•
Cut / Copy / Paste	•	•	•	•
Comprehensive Tool Tips	•	•	•	•
Drag and Drop support	•	• (*)	•	•
Multiple Undo/Redo	•	•	•	•
Save on user request	•	•	•
Permanent & automatic save				•
Support to multilingual models		• (4)
Automated logs & concept history				•

(*) not for Open Office documents
(4) Requires a Professional license with advanced features (Pro+). Ask for this feature to info@objectiver.com. 

User interface: language support

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
English	•	•	•	•
French	•	•	•	(*)
Deutch	•	•	•	(*)
Chinese	•	•	•	•

(*) not yet in the current release

Modelling

KAOS Models

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Supports Goals, Obstaces, Responsibilities, Agents	•	•		•
Supports Objects and Operations	•	•		(*)

(*) not yet in the current release

Diagrams

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Goal, Obstacle, Responsibility, models	•	•		•
Object, Operation models	•	•		(*)
Specific palette to each model type	•	•		N/A
Notes on all diagrams linkable to model elements	•	•		(*)
Hypertext links	•	•		(*)
Search tool supporting regular expressions	•	•
Zoom	•	•		•
Snap to grid	•	•		•
Automatic layout strategies	•	•		•
Cooperative Work				•
Diagram versioning through snapshots				•
Automated goal diagram split	•	•		•
Automated goal diagram merge				•

(*) not yet in current release

Text

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Basic text editor (incl. elementary text styles)	•	•		(4)
Elicitation of model elements directly in text document	•	•		(3)
Drag and drop of references into text document	•	•		(3)
Reference names automatically updated	•	•		•
Hypertext links	•	•
Search tool supporting regular expressions	•	•
Edition & display of OpenOffice Writer documents (1)		•
Diagram explanation with OpenOffice Writer documents (1)		•
Edition of concept definition with basic text editor		•		(4)
Edition of concept definition with Rich text editor		•		(4)
Edition & display of Word documents (4)				•
Conversion  from text documents to OO Wrtiter documents		•
Conversion from OO Writer documents to text documents (2)		•

(1) Models containing Open Office documents cannot be opened with the standard and review editions.
(2) with possible loss of formatting information
(3) requires the MS Word plugin
(4) configurable option

Model verification

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Model syntax checked in real time	•	•		•
Checks of model quality and completeness		•		(*)
Inline edition of model elements violating checks		•		(*)

(*) not yet in the current release

Model reuse

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Package export		•		•
Package import		•		•
Template management				•
Pattern management		• (4)		•

(4) Requires a Professional license with advanced features (Pro+). Ask for this feature to info@objectiver.com. 

Model interoperability

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Save Model in the Eclipse/EMF XMI format (3)		•
Load Model from  Eclipse/EMF XMI formatted files		•
EMF connector		• (4)
ODE to OWEB connector		• (4)		N/A
OMG OQL compliant Query Tool		• (4)
OMG OCL compliant Query Tool				• (5)
OSLC support				(*)

(*) not yet in this release
(3) Text, OO documents, notes, pictures, and review comments are not saved
(4) Requires a Professional license with advanced features (Pro+). Ask for this feature to info@objectiver.com. 
(5) Requires the Query plug-in

Model browsing

Package view

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Display of model elements in user-defiend, tree-structured packages	•	•	•	•
Filtering of model elements by model type	•	•	•	•
Locate model elements from a document by a single click	•	•	•	•?
Locate model elements by name (auto-completion)	•	•	•	•?

Model view

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Display of model elements according to their type	•	•	•	(*)

(*) not yet in the current release

Navigation

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Access to model element neighbourhood	•	•	•	(*)
Document cross-reference navigation	•	•	•	•

(*) not yet in the current release

Reporting and publishing

Manual report editing

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Quick reporting by dragging & dropping existing diagrams and texts	•	•		•

Automated report generation

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Glossary	•	•		(*)
Issue list		•		(*)
Package report		•		•
Diagram/Document dependency		•		•
Generation wizard for IEEE-830 compliant requirements documents		•		(*)

(*) Not yet in the current release

Automated report generation: language support

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
English	N/A	•	N/A	•
French	N/A	•	N/A	(*)
Deutch	N/A	•	N/A	(*)
Chinese	N/A	•	N/A	•

(*) not yet in the current release

HTML publishing

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
One click HTML publishing	•	•		N/A
Diagrams, texts and concept details published	•	•		N/A
Open Office Writer documents published		•		N/A
Zoomable and clickable diagram	•	•		•
Text with hyperlink	•	•		•
Open Office Writer documents with hyperlinks		•		N/A
Tool tip display of definition and issue attributes	•	•
Optional introduction text and diagram	•	•		N/A

Report publishing

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
RTF output	•	•		•
ODF output (.odt)		•		•
Hyperlinks in document	•	•		•

Validation

Analyst's tasks

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Review file generation		•
Review file importation		•
Annotation follow-up		•

Stakeholder's tasks

Functionality	ODE			OWEB
	Standard	Pro/Pro+	Review
Review file load and save (5)			•
Diagram annotations			•

(5) Review models containing Open Office documents cannot yet be loaded with the review edition. They must be converted into text documents before the review file generation.