Название: Systems Engineering of Software-Enabled Systems
Автор: Richard E. Fairley
Издательство: Wiley-IEEE Press
Год: 2019
Страниц: 408
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), djvu
Размер: 10.3 MB

A comprehensive review of the life cycle processes, methods, and techniques used to develop and modify software-enabled systems.

Modern physical systems would be inoperable without software. Software elements provide interfaces among physical elements, coordinate the interactions among software elements and physical elements, enable connections to system environments, and provide some (or most) of the functionality, behavior, and quality attributes of software-enabled physical systems.

It is not an exaggeration to state that software-enabled physical systems are ubiquitous throughout modern society, including but not limited to systems in the domains of transportation, communication, health care, energy, aerospace, military defense, manufacturing, ecology, agriculture, and intelligent structures such as buildings and bridges. Software-enabled physical systems include real-time embedded systems (navigation, communication), consumer products (cell phones, microwave ovens), health care devices (pacemakers, heart and lung machines), transportation systems (automobiles, light rail), energy systems (solar and wind farms, power grids), military defense systems (Tomahawk missiles, F-35 aircraft), earth orbiting satellites (GPS, weather), and interplanetary missions (Cassini, Rosetta).

Software-enabled physical systems have evolved so rapidly in size, complexity, and number of deployments that the systems engineering processes, methods, and techniques for gracefully coordinating development of the software elements and physical elements of software-enabled physical systems have not evolved at a comparable pace.

Systems Engineering of Software-Enabled Systems offers an authoritative review of the most current methods and techniques that can improve the links between systems engineering and software engineering. The author—a noted expert on the topic—offers an introduction to systems engineering and software engineering and presents the issues caused by the differences between the two during development process. The book reviews the traditional approaches used by systems engineers and software engineers and explores how they differ.

The book presents an approach to developing software-enabled systems that integrates the incremental approach used by systems engineers and the iterative approach used by software engineers. This unique approach is based on developing system capabilities that will provide the features, behaviors, and quality attributes needed by stakeholders, based on model-based system architecture. In addition, the author covers the management activities that a systems engineer or software engineer must engage in to manage and lead the technical work to be done. This important book:

- Offers an approach to improving the process of working with systems engineers and software engineers
- Contains information on the planning and estimating, measuring and controlling, managing risk, and organizing and leading systems engineering teams
- Includes a discussion of the key points of each chapter and exercises for review
- Suggests numerous references that provide additional readings for development of software-enabled physical systems
- Provides two case studies as running examples throughout the text

Written for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and practitioners, Systems Engineering of Software-Enabled Systems offers a comprehensive resource to the traditional and current techniques that can improve the links between systems engineering and software engineering.