Supporting Change Impact Analysis in System Architecture Design: Towards a Domain-Specific Modeling Method
Year: 2023
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The architecture design update is appraised as a key issue in the domain of cyber-physical systems. One reason for this is its significant cost that can increase up to several folds with each phase of the life cycle, from conceptual design to operation. Therefore, before accepting such update, it is crucial to analyse its impact - the so-called "Change Impact Analysis (CIA)". CIA is based on traceability of dependencies between elements in system artefacts. However, in practice, traceability is not sufficient to allow the automated support of CIA, as it lacks the consideration of CIA parameters. A CIA parameter is any information that could be useful for quantitatively or qualitatively assessing change impact. Against this background, this paper proposes a Domain-Specific Modeling Method for assisting CIA in the context of system architecture design.Such method is composed of two parts. First, a traceability language built upon existing traceability patterns and involving a set of CIA parameters. Second, a modeling procedure referring to a change scenario-based approach that describes how to use such language to provide an automated support for CIA. For the sake of validity, the method is applied in the aeronautical field.
Authors: Afef Awadid, Remi Boyer
Institution: Institut de Recherche Technologique SystemX
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4323240366