by Alfred Sadlauer, Markus Riedl-Ehrenleitner, Peter Hehenberger, Andreas Demuth, Alexander Egyed
Abstract:
Today's product development projects require collaboration across different engineering domains in order to be successful. For instance, a project may require software engineers to collaborate with electrical engineers and mechanical engineers. Even though engineers of different domains focus on different parts of the system-under-development, these parts typically cannot work in isolation. Therefore, coordination among these engineers is necessary to ensure that the individual parts of a system work together well when combined. The lack of such coordination leads to inconsistencies and hence the inability to integrate individual parts of the system. Even though approaches for finding such inconsistencies have been developed, it has yet to be shown whether the presentation of inconsistencies is of actual value to engineers. In this paper, we present the results of a practical experiment that assessed the effects of the presence of inconsistent information during development. The results indicate that specific feedback about inconsistency (when performing changes) leads to better engineering results than merely presenting general information about system interconnections.
Reference:
The Practical Use of Inconsistency Information in Engineering Design Tasks (Alfred Sadlauer, Markus Riedl-Ehrenleitner, Peter Hehenberger, Andreas Demuth, Alexander Egyed), In Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM, 2017.
Bibtex Entry:
@Article{dblp:journals/icplm/Sadlauer2017,
author = {Alfred Sadlauer and Markus Riedl-Ehrenleitner and Peter Hehenberger and Andreas Demuth and Alexander Egyed},
title = {The Practical Use of Inconsistency Information in Engineering Design Tasks},
journal = {Journal of Product Lifecycle Management (IJPLM},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Today's product development projects require collaboration across
different engineering domains in order to be successful. For instance,
a project may require software engineers to collaborate with electrical
engineers and mechanical engineers. Even though engineers of different
domains focus on different parts of the system-under-development,
these parts typically cannot work in isolation. Therefore, coordination
among these engineers is necessary to ensure that the individual
parts of a system work together well when combined. The lack of such
coordination leads to inconsistencies and hence the inability to
integrate individual parts of the system. Even though approaches
for finding such inconsistencies have been developed, it has yet
to be shown whether the presentation of inconsistencies is of actual
value to engineers. In this paper, we present the results of a practical
experiment that assessed the effects of the presence of inconsistent
information during development. The results indicate that specific
feedback about inconsistency (when performing changes) leads to better
engineering results than merely presenting general information about
system interconnections.},
file = {:Journals\\IJPLM 2017 - The Practical Use of Inconsistency Information in Engineering Design Tasks\\The Practical Use of Inconsistency Information in Engineering Design Tasks – First Observations-preprint.pdf:PDF},
keywords = {ACCM, LCM},
url = {http://www.jucs.org/jucs_20_5/consistency_checking_in_early},
}