Rational Rhapsody features and benefits

The IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Developer solution is an embedded, realtime or technical application software development environment that helps improve your productivity throughout the embedded software development lifecycle — from requirements capture to implementation, test and deployment. The Rational Rhapsody Developer tool helps enable model-driven development (MDD) based on industry standard UML or SysML, providing host and target-based simulation with full application development environments for C, C++, Ada, and Java, including code generation for behavioral diagrams targeting embedded or realtime targets. The Rational Rhapsody Developer environment helps promote iterative development and rapid prototyping to aid in meeting project success and risk mitigation goals.

The Rational Rhapsody Developer solution helps drive efficiency in your development workflow with:

• Animation and model execution for design level debugging to help identify problems early, and they are the least costly to fix

• Visual modeling using industry standard UML/SysML helps facilitate team communications

• Domain-specific language support for graphical C, AUTOSAR, MARTE or DoDAF, MODAF and UPDM with IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® for DoDAF, MODAF, and UPDM Add On

• Full application generation for C, C++, Java and Ada including behavioral diagrams

• Build artifacts generated for real time operating systems

• MISRA-C and MISRA-C++ code for embedded systems to automate development process

• Eclipse integration enables teams to leverage single development IDE for coding, modeling and team collaboration including Jazz integration with Rational Team Concert support

• Model driven testing helps automate your testing process with visualization of test cases and automatic test execution, monitoring and generation

• Requirements analysis and traceability to design, implementation and test artifacts, helping you deliver the right product while quickly responding to change

• Perform export to IBM® Rational® DOORS® or IBM® Rational® RequisitePro® to manage traceability from requirements to design

• Advanced requirement impact analysis, coverage analysis, integration with third party requirements management solutions available with the IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Tools and Utilities Add On

• Includes parallel development via a configuration management interface with the IBM® Rational® Synergy, Rational Team Concert and IBM® Rational® ClearCase® tools, plus other products

• Graphical differencing and merging of model elements function that can be integrated into your configuration management tool

• Re-use of IBM® Rational® Rose® models, helping to expand their functionality by providing execution and validation of those models

• Interface to synchronize DoDAF data specified in Rational System Architect with system and software design in Rational Rhapsody

• Customizable documentation generation through ReporterPlus feature of IBM® Rational® Rhapsody® Tools and Utilities Add On or IBM Rational Publishing Engine

• Extendible, customizable to help you integrate your current processes or third party tools so you can leverage your existing assets