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Capella: the solution for MBSE

www.prfc.fr

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▪ Senior consultant, 25+ years of modeling experience

• SADT, OMT, UML, SysML, ARCADIA/Capella

▪ UML2 and SysML Certified by the OMG

▪ Co-founder of the association

▪ Trainer for Thales on ARCADIA / Capella

• 130+ sessions, 1500+ trainees

• Part of

▪ Author of UML/SysML best-sellers in France

▪ … and of the first Capella book soon!

Introduction: Pascal Roques

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Language

MethodTool

MBSE pillars (SysML)

(TBD!)

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Language

MethodTool

MBSE pillars (ARCADIA / Capella)

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ARCADIA: Global View

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ARCADIA Summary

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Capella: « Big Picture »

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A bit of history

▪ Capella

• Developed and used by Thales since several years

• in 2015 OSS of Thales Melody workbench as Capella

• Prerequisite: OSS of all subcomponents (including Sirius)

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2015 1st Capella release

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Capella Roadmap

▪ Capella 0.8 RC was released in December 2014

▪ Capella 1.0.0 was released in January 2016

▪ …

▪ Capella 1.1.0 was released in January 2017

▪ …

▪ Capella 1.1.2 was released in September 2017

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Community: www.polarsys.org/capella

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Capella Differentiating Features

▪ Methodological Guidance

• The Activity Browser provides a methodological access

to all key activities of Capella

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Capella Differentiating Features

▪ Semantic Browser

• More useful than the standard hierarchical view of the model,

the Semantic Browser instantaneously provides the context of

model elements trough meaningful queries

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Capella Differentiating Features

▪ Model Checking

• Capella organizes model validation rules in several categories:

Integrity, Design, Completeness, Traceability, etc.

• Architects can define different validation profiles

• Whenever possible, quick fixes provide automated solutions

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Capella Differentiating Features

▪ Automated Transitions

• Functions / Actors / etc.

• Even Scenario Transition!

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Capella Differentiating Features

▪ Advanced Diagram Management

• Automated contextual diagrams: Content is automatically updated

according to preselected elements and predefined semantic rules

• Filters help improve readability of diagrams by selecting display

options and automatically hiding / showing elements

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Capella Differentiating Features

▪ Replicable Elements and Libraries

• Replicable Elements are mechanisms allowing the easy reuse of

(possibly multi-root) model parts

▪ RECs can be packaged in libraries, which can be shared between several projects

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Capella Differentiating Features

▪ Viewpoints

• Capella provides demonstration viewpoints (Mass, Cost, etc.)

• Combined with Capella Studio, it provides an API for viewpoint

development in order to evaluate the performance of candidate

architectures according to different concerns

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Capella Studio

▪ Capella Extension

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Capella Ecosystem

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Capella Industrial Consortium (IC)

Governance

Knowledge sharing

Product Management

Joint development

financing

Development of the

community

Promotion

Case studies, technology watch,

private exchange workshops on N&N

Requirements co-creation,

Discuss the roadmap

Coordinate investments to reduce

development time, risks, and cost, and maximize ROI

Promote Capella as a leading solution,

Provide material to executive

Collaboration between research/academia,

suppliers, end-users

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To Learn More...

Web Sites:

• www.polarsys.org/capella

• //wiki.polarsys.org/Capella• //polarsys.org/forums/index.php/f/13/

• www.obeo.fr/en/capella-professional-offer

• www.prfc.fr

• www.clarity-se.org/