Elevating digital engineering quality assurance for groups and organizations committed to the Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect platform.
IncQuery Validator is a powerful tool that provides model governance as an integral part of your next-generation MBSE workflow. Model governance establishes rigorous quality criteria and enforces style guidelines that are essential for effective data exchange in engineering workflows. This ensures that models remain consistent and understandable across different teams and organizations, preventing the accumulation of errors that could manifest later in the product lifecycle, potentially leading to costly delays and reworks.
The IncQuery Validator for Enterprise Architect comes in three different tiers, layered on top of each other, from a desktop tool add-on to an enterprise-level, scalable model governance workbench. It can generate rich validation reports including a high-level Quality Score, as well as detailed rule violation breakdowns, that give information on the general context, severity, and impact of each quality issue.
Model governance ensures that your work is:
Free from common design mistakes, meaning it helps in identifying and correcting errors early in the design process, reducing the risk of costly revisions later.
Compliant to standards and other regulations, ensuring that models adhere to industry-specific guidelines and legal requirements which are critical for system certification and market acceptance.
Conformant to established methodologies and best practices, which involves the consistent application of proven modeling techniques and strategies to improve the reliability and quality of the system models to established methodologies and best practices.
Explore the capabilities of the IncQuery Validator for Enterprise Architect in more depth through our webinar recordings. Learn how the tool significantly enhances model-based systems engineering and eases the life of system engineers and quality managers, by providing automated quality gates, rich validation reports, and a high-level Quality Score, and discover how this tool integrates with your CI/CD pipelines to maintain high-quality standards in complex projects.
The available webinar videos are:
This joint webinar series with Sparx Systems North America takes you through a comprehensive journey, from understanding the fundamentals of model quality to mastering model governance automation. Use the links below to explore the specific parts or watch the full webinar.
Part 1: Authoring Success and Model Quality
Systems Engineers and Architects: Understand the key factors for authoring successful models and the core principles of model quality, with a demo on the basics of the IncQuery Validator.
Part 2: Deep Dive Into Model Governance
Systems Engineers and Architects: Learn how model governance impacts your MBSE adoption and see a demonstration of advanced validation features.
Part 3: Rules, Rulesets, and Profiles
Power Users: Discover the power of the IncQuery Validator Ruleset SDK with demos on structural and semantic validation using custom rules.
Part 4: Governance Automation Pipelines
Team and Department Leaders, QA Specialists: See how governance automation integrates with CI/CD pipelines, featuring demos of quality gates and version control through Jenkins and GitHub.
This webinar is ideal for system architects, engineers, and quality assurance specialists seeking to enhance model quality and compliance with industry standards with special guest, Tim Weilkiens, MBSE consultant, for unparalleled insights into model-based engineering practices.
IncQuery Validator for Enterprise Architect Webinar Series 2024
Overview: A Tool for Model Quality and Quality Assurance - IncQuery Validator for Enterprise Architect
Model-based Systems Engineering promotes the concept of a primary artefact being the “single source of truth”. This means that systems design artefacts captured in SysML tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler or Enterprise Architect need to be validated for internal consistency as part of the authoring process, to make sure that they are free of basic errors (such as missing or invalid property values) as well as more complex design mistakes (such as incorrectly applied patterns, circular dependencies, etc).
While authoring tools do provide some quality assurance features (e.g. validation rules), their configuration and execution is hard to standardize across a large team of collaborators, especially as tool capabilities may be significantly different. As a result, quality assurance practice in MBSE projects becomes fragmented and heavily reliant on error-prone and time-consuming manual review processes – which is hardly the best, yet still the most popular way of being ISO26262 compliant.
Consequently, a lot of SysML projects, especially complex ones managed by large organizations along long supply chains, tend to accumulate a lot of undetected or ignored errors. This is a significant risk, as these may manifest in later engineering phases as handover problems that require a lot of back-and-forth communication to resolve. The most severe of such flaws may even remain in the system under design until testing and integration, causing a lot of extra cost and missed deadlines.
EA Add-in: Tight integration with Enterprise Architect for efficient workflows
Blazing fast querying: Up to ten times faster than existing validation possibilities
Powerful built-in rulesets: Checking methodology conformance along SysMOD and SAIC Digital Engineering principles
DevOps Pipeline Deployment: Integrated with SQL and Git
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Quality Score Reports: Rich HTML reports that evaluate model quality with actionable insights
Model Governance: Implement governance at scale to maintain model integrity across large teams
Integrating reports with workflows: Available in JSON, CSV and Excel formats for easy processing
Custom rulesets: Create tailored support for your own scenarios via the powerful Ruleset SDK
IncQuery Validator helps Systems Engineers to assess key quality-related metrics of their work, including conformance checking with established methodologies and up to ten times faster than using other methods.
IncQuery Validator supports complex projects through helping teams to collaborate more efficiently, by taking advantage of elastic capabilities of Jenkins or similar platforms. Integrating authoring processes with review and audit tasks, governance automation takes complex digital engineering to a next level.
Reports help Systems Engineers and Quality Assurance Experts to assess model quality at a glance, as well as in high-fidelity, without having to open EA. The HTML/PDF reports feature the Quality Score, which takes the number and severity of each rule into account. Detailed rule breakdowns are also provided, allowing you to navigate to the problematic model element with a single click, right inside Enterprise Architect.
Modeling Experts can easily fine-tune validation scenarios to the actual needs of any digital engineering endeavor, to perfectly fit in-house methodologies and best practices, using an Eclipse-based Ruleset SDK built for this very purpose.
All of our solutions are available in yearly term-based subscription plans:
Standalone
Team
Enterprise
Seat license
Floating license
Add-ons / Plug-ins
Automation pipeline
Included
Available on request
Available on request
You can download the 30-day evaluation version of IncQuery Validator for Enterprise Architect by filling out the form below. The evaluation version contains the functionality of the Standalone and Team tiers.
