Tool Vendor Challenge Goals and Objectives
The following outlines the goals and objectives for the 2013 Tool Vendor Challenge (TVC 2013).
The goal for TVC2013 should focus on how tools support the systems engineer through the development life cycle and demonstrate how tools can be used to integrate Systems Engineering with other technical disciplines on a project. Tools that do not support the entire development life cycle should be able to show compatibility with other tool sets.
In order to sufficiently demonstrate capabilities supporting the system development life cycle it is an objective for the TVC teams to demonstrate support of most or all of the following systems engineering (SE) activities:
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Capture Stakeholder needs
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Requirements Management
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Capture the definition and description of the system including structure and behavior
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Capture derived System Requirements
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Capture Assumptions
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Capture external and internal Interfaces (both specified and derived)
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Decision Analysis
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Design Optimization
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Capture and portray end-to-end Traceability between Requirements, System Model elements, and Designs including Allocations
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Conduct Impact Analysis (Ex:, requirement changes on system design, impact of delayed design features on requirements satisfaction)
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Gap Analysis/is anything missing (i.e. are all the requirements captured)?
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Consistency/accuracy/completeness checking (i.e. is the model correct? Does it comply with SysML/UPDM/other? Are there any errors in the model?)
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Automatically Generating Documentation such as an RFP, SPEC, ICD, Test Plan
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System Configuration Management (CM)/Change control
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Modeling (Functional and/or Object) and Simulation
In order to demonstrate support for the integration/exchange of systems engineering data with other technical disciplines, another objective for the TVC teams is to work into their demonstrations an interaction of any of the SE activities listed above to two or more of the following engineering functional areas:
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Reliability analysis
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Mechanical Engineering (CAD/CAE)
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Electrical and Electronics
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Software
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Mission analysis and simulation
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Training Systems Development
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Logistics Analysis
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Cost Analysis
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Affordability Analysis
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Program Management (Schedule, WBS, Risk)
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Safety Engineering
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Test planning and development
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Risk management
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Supportability Analysis
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This is critical to help move forward the state of practice in systems engineering and be able to motivate the SE tool industry along the roadmap proposed in the INCOSE Vision2020.
TVC Chair: Frank Salvatore, fsalvatore@drc.com
