A hypertext software package to help document system designs

A hypertext-based software package that was created to help engineers with little formal systems engineering experience to document a system design is examined. A hypertext-based object-oriented programming environment allows easy transfer of information within the design and provides a user friendl...

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Published inIEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 584 - 589
Main Authors Chapman, W.L., Bahill, A.T.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.1993
Subjects
Automatic testing
Data mining
Design engineering
Documentation
Object oriented programming
Sensitivity analysis
Software packages
Software testing
System analysis and design
Systems engineering and theory
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Summary:A hypertext-based software package that was created to help engineers with little formal systems engineering experience to document a system design is examined. A hypertext-based object-oriented programming environment allows easy transfer of information within the design and provides a user friendly interface. Tradeoff analysis is automated. This allows fast sensitivity analysis within the tradeoff studies and greatly decreases the time needed to complete the concept exploration. Test results indicate that ease in writing the documentation and completing the analysis is a major benefit, but the software's slow speed and its inability to automatically reenter extracted data are drawbacks.< >
ISSN:0018-9472
2168-2909
DOI:10.1109/21.229472