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| Title | Taming the Expanding System Complextiy of a Commercial Product: Embracing Systems Engineering Principles in a Commercial Development Environment. |
| Abstract |
The development momentum of complex commercial products are often choked by an interminable cycle of test and corrective action that devours and overwhelms resources. The root cause of this class of problem is that traditional commercial development environments do not make use of sound Systems Engineering principles as their products mature into highly complex systems. This paper provides an account of how Fujitsu Australia's Telecommunications Reserach and Development (R&D) centre is exploiting the years of experience gained by the Aerospace and Defense industries, and adapting their highly tuned and proven Systems Engineering practices into the commerical development environment. The centre piece of this paper is the adopted generic Systems Engineering Model that has become the central focus of development capability maturation within the R&D centre. |
| Download | TamingComplexity.pdf (56kb) |
| Title | Things People Say About Testing |
| Abstract | The activites and objective of Test are often, though unconsciously, regarded as both natural and intuituve! This genuine, though mistaken, feeling of familiarity with Test leads many organisations and individuals to hold beliefs about Test, which are neither true nor logical. Generally these beliefs are of no consequence to the responsible Test manager. However, in a time of crisis important, but "test naive", stakeholders may begin to question the function, scope, and methods of Test. Under these circumstances, the Test manager will need to reply satisfactorily to "the things people say about testing". |
| Download | ThingsPeopleSay.pdf (14kb) |
| Title | Creating and Managing a Resilient DOORS Schema |
| Abstract |
So you've purchased DOORS, it's been installed, the pilot project's been selected, the boss is waiting anxiously for signs of a return on investment and you're blankly staring at the PC screen wondering what happens next. You've seen the demos, perhaps visited a reference site or witnessed DOORS in action at a user group meeting, but how did they take DOORS out of the box and get it to do all that great stuff. The beauty of DOORS in that not only is it's base architecture designed for Requirements Management, it's power lies in its ability to be customised to meet your specific Requirements Management needs. This paper will step through the process that Fujitsu Australia used to take DOORS out-of-the-box and architect a module, attribute and view schema to meet the Requirements and Test Management needs of its System Development Lice cycle (SDLC) model. This paper will also walk through some process management examples including how DOORS has been customised to strengthen its baseline management feature and how to manage suspect incoming links that come from source objects that have a modification timestamp that's later that than of the current target object being viewed. |
| Download | DOORSSchema.pdf (65kb) |