A Framework to Support Requirements Analysis in Engineering Design

William Brace (1) , Vincent Cheutet (2)

1 TKK - TKK Helsinki University of Technology
2 LISMMA - Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Mécaniques et des MAtériaux

Complex system development activities such as requirements analysis to requirements specification, implementation and verification are well defined in the software engineering domain. Interests in using a model driven engineering have increased in this domain. System level requirements analysis and model driven engineering may result in a significant improvement in engineering design. This paper presents a Checklist Oriented Requirement Analysis (CORA) framework to develop and formalize requirements. CORA is an integrated framework that adopts a checklist concept and utilizes logical reasoning operation in conjunction with information management to analyze systematically the initial requirements statement. An underground work machine is used as an application example to illustrate the proposed framework.

Mots clés: requirements analysis framework; requirements checklist; model-based requirements; requirements information; CORA-framework

Domaines: Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]; Génie mécanique [physics.class-ph]

William Brace, Vincent Cheutet. A Framework to Support Requirements Analysis in Engineering Design. Journal of Engineering Design, 2012, 23 (12), pp.876-904. ⟨10.1080/09544828.2011.636735⟩. ⟨hal-00799820⟩