SysML Tool Review: MagicDraw
| CRITERIA | RATING |
| Usability | |
| Function: Draw SysML | |
| Function: Simulate / Execute SysML | |
| Team Model & Interop | |
| Value | |
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- Strictly enforces most of OMG SysML syntax and semantics (see CONS for exceptions)
- Enterprise edition bundles Cameo Simulation Toolkit (otherwise must buy separately)
- Supports plugins for integration with Requirements Management tools (e.g., DOORS, RequisitePro)
- Suffers from tool featuritis and UX is gratuitously complex (needs extreme makeover)
- Activity diagrams are awkward to nest
- Sequence diagrams do not properly support semantics of Interfaces and Signals
- Tool itself is relatively expensive, and cost of plugins (Simulation Toolkit, DataHub, DoDAF, etc.) is excessive; Simulation Tookit should be bundled, as it is with Cameo System Modeler
- XMI interoperability does not work as advertised with competitive tools
- Recommended as a pragmatic SysML modeling tool that supports Agile MBSE and intermediate-level model simulations
Review: MagicDraw - SysML & MBSE Support
- Product Name: MagicDraw w/ SysML plugin
- Brand: Sparx Systems Pty Ltd.
- Description: SysML enterprise architect modeling tool for MBSE applications. SysML plugin supports behavioral and parametric simulations.
- Reviewer: Editor, SysMLtools.com
- Date: 12/30/2022
- Review Summary:
This SysML modeling tool review features MagicDraw, No Magic's flagship UML modeling tool which supports a SysML plugin for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) applications. [Note that No Magic also produces Cameo Systems Modeler, a collaborative MBSE environment based on MagicDraw that includes the SysML plugin.] The review evaluates MagicDraw's SysML and MBSE modeling capabilities using the following weighted evaluation criteria: Usability, Major Functions (Drawing, Simulation & Execution), Standards & Interoperability, Team Modeling & Tech Support, and Value.
MagicDraw is a solid choice as a Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tool that strictly enforces SysML well-formedness rules for syntax (notation) and semantics. MagicDraw offers proprietary and commercial plugins to integrate with Requirements Management tools (e.g., DOORS, PTC Integrity) and Simulation tools (MATLAB/Simulink, Mathematica).
Shortcomings include, but are not limited to, gratuitously complex UI, featuritis, Activity diagrams do not nest cleanly, and Sequence diagrams do not fully grok semantics of Interfaces and Signals.
MagicDraw is recommended as a pragmatic SysML modeling tool that supports Agile MBSE and intermediate-level model simulations.
- Editor Rating: 3.6 / 5 Stars
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