Title :
A Scientifically Experimental Approach to the Simulation of Designer Activity in the Conceptual Designing of Software Intensive Systems
Author_Institution :
Comput. Dept., Ulyanovsk State Tech. Univ., Ulyanovsk, Russia
Abstract :
The success of designing software intensive systems (SISs) may be improved by incorporating experimentation to be part of the design process. This paper presents a scientific approach to experimentation on objects that are units of designers´ behavior and is aimed at solving project tasks in conceptual design. The proposed approach is based on specifying the behavior units as precedents and pseudo-code programming of experiments´ plans. Reasoning used by designers in the experiments is registered in a question-answer form. Experimenting is supported by a specialized toolkit.
Keywords :
formal specification; question answering (information retrieval); reasoning about programs; behavior unit specification; conceptual design; designer activity simulation; pseudocode programming; question answer form; reasoning; scientifically experimental approach; software intensive system; Cognition; Complexity theory; Natural languages; Programming; Real-time systems; Software; Software engineering; Conceptual designing; designers´ behavior; experience; precedent; question-answering; software intensive system;
Journal_Title :
Access, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/ACCESS.2013.2274896
