TITLE:
Challenges for Software Engineering in Automation
AUTHORS:
Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Christian Diedrich, Alexander Fay, Sabine Jeschke, Stefan Kowalewski, Martin Wollschlaeger, Peter Göhner
KEYWORDS:
Automation, Software Engineering, Models, Tools
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications,
Vol.7 No.5,
May
21,
2014
ABSTRACT:
This paper gives an
introduction to the essential challenges of software engineering and
requirements that software has to fulfill in the domain of automation. Besides,
the functional characteristics, specific constraints and circumstances are
considered for deriving requirements concerning usability, the technical
process, the automation functions, used platform and the well-established
models, which are described in detail. On the other hand, challenges result
from the circumstances at different points in the single phases of the life
cycle of the automated system. The requirements for life-cycle-management,
tools and the changeability during runtime are described in detail.