A Scientifically Experimental Approach to the Simulation of Designer Activity in the Conceptual Designing of Software Intensive Systems

Author

Sosnin, Petr

Author_Institution

Comput. Dept., Ulyanovsk State Tech. Univ., Ulyanovsk, Russia

Volume

1

fYear

2013

fDate

2013

Firstpage

488

Lastpage

504

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Access, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

2169-3536

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/ACCESS.2013.2274896

Filename

6568867