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Featured Tool
MKS Integrity™ with Simulink® and the MATLAB® Environment
Vendor: MKS
Address: 410 Albert St,
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3V3
Phone: 800.613.7535
Fax: 519.884.8861
Tool URL: www.mks.com/solutions
Description: This solution combines MKS Integrity with Simulink and the
MATLAB environment for seamless incorporation of modeling
and simulation as part of the greater engineering lifecycle.
MKS Integrity extends change control, configuration management,
and process automation to models, simulations, and other
information assets. The solution also connects modeling and
simulation with upstream and downstream relationships to other
information assets that are part of the engineering lifecycle
(requirements, tests, source code, etc.). The result is radically
improved visibility, traceability, and control over the end-to-end
engineering lifecycle. This is the only solution that can rapidly
and easily harmonize Simulink and the MATLAB environment
with the rest of the engineering lifecycle, and the benefits include
reductions in risk, cost, and cycle time.
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Sticky ToolLook Interview
Model-driven Engineering with Steve Partridge
Steve Partridge is a product manager at MKS. In this interview
with the Sticky ToolLook, he speaks about how the application of
model simulation early in the application lifecycle can help save
your organization trouble (and wasted money) down the road. He also
discusses a potential difficulty with modeling in big organizations
and offers suggestions for managing it.
Sticky ToolLook:
What are some of the benefits to using models in
development and testing?
Steve Partridge: Model-driven engineering, especially in software
engineering, is an early expression of the final product, which can
be used to provide a number of benefits to the overall process. An
early expression of the product in the form of a model allows engineers
to find gaps in requirements, validate requirements, and uncover missing
requirements.
The benefits of determining these shortcomings in early phases (such
as design and development) yield large benefits to the project overall.
Early prototyping allows for project-validity checking before resources
and materials are allocated and spent on a project, and models can be a
vehicle that is used to drive out test cases for test engineers.
Through model simulation, engineers can uncover defects and problems
early in the design-and-development phase rather than in the testing
phase, where it is far more expensive to fix.
STL: How might the use of models become difficult across an organization?
SP: As more and more organizations turn to modeling as a primary tool
for designing and developing software and products, these models are
used to design and implement very complex systems. These systems could
be entertainment systems, or they could be safety-critical systems. But,
regardless of the system, the complexities that are being implemented
into these models are an organization's market differentiation and also
an organization's biggest area of risk. It is this risk and complexity
that is making the models hard for organizations to manage. Incorporating
the model as an integral aspect of the overall application lifecycle is
critical to overcoming many of these management challenges.
STL: What suggestions do you have for organizations interested in but
not yet using models for development and testing?
SP: Modeling will bring most organizations a great deal of benefit,
but they need to manage these models as part of the overall lifecycle
and not in isolation. Implementing a modeling domain that is a part
of a cohesive tool chain that closely ties the models to the rest of
the application lifecycle will allow you to closely manage the complexities
as well as the risks. This is achieved by: ensuring that you are
delivering the full set of requirements as well as the latest versions
to meet customer or market expectations, increasing product quality by
ensuring your model was verified against the correct set and version of
test cases, and providing complete traceability between all the development
artifacts to provide compliance with industry standards like ISO26262
or SPICE.
Keep the Conversation Going
Have a question or comment? Send an email to jmcallister@sqe.com and keep the conversation going.
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Media Spotlight
STAR Conference Video
James Whittaker's "Large-scale Exploratory Testing:
Let's Take a Tour"
Manual testing is the best way to find the bugs most likely to
bite users badly after a product ships. However, manual testing
remains a very ad hoc, aimless process. At a number of companies
across the globe, groups of test innovators gathered in think tank
settings to create a better way to do manual testing--a way that
is more prescriptive, repeatable, and capable of finding the highest
quality bugs. The result is a new methodology for exploratory
testing based on the concept of tours through the application under
test. James Whittaker describes the tourist metaphor for this novel
approach and demonstrates tours taken by test teams from companies
including Microsoft and Google.
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Outside the Tool Box
Fushigi Ball
Fushigi Ball is a sphere that can be used in contact juggling,
which is that thing that David Bowie did in Labyrinth. No, not
singing while playing Toss the Baby with a castle full of Muppets.
The other thing.
And, honestly, if you were to click on the link at the bottom of
this Outside the ToolBox right now, you'd likely want to send me
an email asking, "How is that applicable to [insert your name here,
if you like to communicate in third person] in my daily work as a
[enter occupation; default is Antarctic ATM maintenance engineer]".
Well, I could tell you that contact juggling (once you master it)
is a powerful stress reliever. Or, I could describe how carefully
maneuvering a mirrored ball on your fingertips from one hand to
another is a great way to hypnotize coworkers into doing your bidding.
But I'm not going to do either, because I've run out of space.
Read more about Fushigi Ball.
SEND US YOUR OUTSIDE THE TOOLBOX "TOOL"
Do you know of any fun or unusual tools, toys, or other items that
might be slightly outside the software development toolbox? Tell us
about them by sending an email to Joey McAllister at jmcallister@sqe.com
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