Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Publication Title
JOT, Journal of Object Technology
Abstract
Modelers encounter different kinds of uncertainty in their designs and models of software systems. One such type concerns uncertainty about how to build a model. This is called design-time uncertainty, and existing research has studied how modelers can work in its presence. However, the process by which they come to elicit and express their uncertainties remains unclear. In this paper, we take steps towards addressing this gap by introducing DRUIDE (Design and Requirements Uncertainty Integrated Development Environment), a language and workflow for articulating design time uncertainty. We present and illustrate our proposal on a software design example. Additionally, we conduct a real life case study of domain analysis related to the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and evaluate DRUIDE with it. Our evaluation shows that DRUIDE is sufficiently expressive to articulate design time uncertainty.
Keywords
Uncertainty language, modeling language, model-driven engineering, requirements models, design-time decisions
Volume
12
Issue
3
DOI
dx.doi.org/10.5381/jot.2021.21.3.a3
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Dhaouadi, Mouna; Spencer, Kate M. B.; Varnum, Megan H.; Grubb, Alicia M.; and Famelis, Michalis, "Towards a Generic Method for Articulating Design Uncertainty" (2021). Computer Science: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/csc_facpubs/173
Comments
Archived as published.
Open access article.