Surrogates-based prototyping

Surrogates-based prototyping

Du Bois, E.
Horvath, I.

Industrial Design Engineering

Design Engineering

2014-05-23

The research is situated in the system development phase of interactive software products. In this detailed design phase, we found a need for fast testable prototyping to achieve qualitative change proposals on the system design. In this paper, we discuss a literature study on current software development and opportunities for building fast testable prototypes. Next, we discuss a new methodology called surrogates-based prototyping (SBP). The SBP methodology supports combining existing software products as surrogates to simulate all function sets. To test the methodology, we discuss an application of the methodology in a reference case. We concluded that SBP supports reasoning about the stakeholder-computer interaction on such a detailed level that all functions and usability aspects can be reconsidered for improvement before coding. SBP goes beyond the conventional concept of pure component-based design and avoids the problem of interfacing of heterogeneous components, using a platform-enabled approach.

testable software prototyping
surrogate software
surrogates-based prototyping
component-based development
platform-based development

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:07a76d57-1450-4708-a393-e6abeafc764c

Delft University of Technology

978-94-6186-177-1

Tools and methods of competitive engineering: Digital proceedings of the tenth international symposium on tools and methods of competitive engineering, TMCE 2014, 1589-1602, Budapest, Hungary, 19 - 23 May 2014

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conference paper

(c) 2014 Du Bois, E.
Horvath, I.