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Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass
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Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass

Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass, Ph.D. has deep and broad expertise as a result of over 40 years' experience designing safety-critical real-time systems in a variety of hard real-time environments. He is one of the authors of both the UML and SysML standards, and author to over 6000 book pages from a number of technical books including The Harmony aMBSE Deskbook, Agile Systems Engineering, Real-Time UML, Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems, Real-Time Design Patterns, Doing Hard Time, Real-Time Agility, and Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C. Many presentations, papers, models, designs, and more can be found on his website. He is currently the Senior Principal Agile Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation.
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Traceability

Traceability in a model means that it is possible to navigate among related elements, even if those elements are of different kinds or located in different packages. This is an important part of model verification because it enables you to ensure the consistency of information that may be represented in fundamentally different ways or different parts of the model. For example:

  • Are the requirements properly represented in the use case functional analysis?
  • Do the design elements properly satisfy the requirements?
  • Is the design consistent with the architectural principles?
  • Do the physical interfaces properly realize the logical interface definitions?

The value of traceability goes well beyond model verification. The primary reasons for providing traceability are to support:

  • Impact analysis: determine the impact of change, such as:
    • If I change this requirement or this design element, what are the elements that are...
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Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass

Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass, Ph.D. has deep and broad expertise as a result of over 40 years' experience designing safety-critical real-time systems in a variety of hard real-time environments. He is one of the authors of both the UML and SysML standards, and author to over 6000 book pages from a number of technical books including The Harmony aMBSE Deskbook, Agile Systems Engineering, Real-Time UML, Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems, Real-Time Design Patterns, Doing Hard Time, Real-Time Agility, and Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C. Many presentations, papers, models, designs, and more can be found on his website. He is currently the Senior Principal Agile Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation.
Read more about Dr. Bruce Powel Douglass