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Topic Concerns Models Analysis Engineering Testing

Functionality (static

views)

Providing a list offeatures

Use cases / userstories

Numberedrequirements

Requirementanalysis

Prototyping & otherrequirements

elicitationtechniques

White box (unit),black box (system)

tests

Specifyingfunctional

behavior

Descriptivespecifications

Formal specifications

Analysis of formalspecs for

completeness,

consistency

Mathematicalabstractions to

facilitate formal

specification

Simulated executionbased on executable

formal specs

Understanding

usage profile

Operational modes

Operational profiles

Used in

performance,reliability and

usability analysis

Using usage

frequencies to driverelease plans,

usability engg

Testing based on

usage profiles

Functional behavior(dynamic views)

Modeling multi-step operations &interactions

Sequence diagramsFlowchartsPseudocode

Algorithmiccorrectness, role ofparticipants,

interactions betweenoperations

Algorithm design System test cases

Handling ofarbitrary input

sequences and

combinations

State diagrams State machineanalysis:

Reachability

analysis,Proof of properties

State machinedesign

Load testing (testsequences)

Structure (staticviews) [Note that

structure is a dev.

internal concern,

unlike the others

which are product

attributes]

Modularity,Interfaces,

Relationshipsbetween structural

elements

Class diagrams(Informal) Block

diagrams

Dependencyanalysis

Interfacespecification,

interface control

Unit testing

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Responsibility

allocationInteraction

patterns

Collaboration

diagrams

Collaboration

analysis

Design patterns Integration testing

Distribution

patterns

Deployment view

Physical view

Node capabilities

and utilizationanalysis

Systems engineering Configuration

testing

Performance Capacity Flowcharts

Dataflow diagrams

Bottleneck analysis System and software

dimensioning

Load testing

Stress testing

Throughput Sequence diagrams Bottleneck analysisPlatform

benchmarking

Workload analysisProcessor utilizationanalysis

Queueing models

Hotspotoptimization

ProfilingIdletime

measurement

Response time (Informal) block

diagrams, sequence

diagrams, controlflow diagrams,

process diagrams

Scheduling analysis

Queueing models

Priority assignment

Increasing

concurrencyParallel computing

Application

benchmarking

Network

bandwidthutilization

Protocols

Message flowdiagrams (message

sequence charts)

Network usage and

behavior analysis

Bandwidth

allocationContention

resolution

Network monitoring

Memory

utilization

DTDs (datatype

definitions)

Memory usage and

management

analysis

Codesize

optimization

Stack size selectionMemory

management

Memory usage

analyzer (detection

of memory leaks,profiling memory

usage)

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Other resource

utilization (diskspace, power,

weight)

Resource usage tables

e.g. table of filesstored and disk space

needed

Resource usage and

managementanalysis

Concurrencypatterns

Buffering Benchmarking

Dependability Deadlines (Same as responsetime)

Response timeanalysis

Scheduling analysis

Rate-monotonicscheduling

Designing for

predictability

Performancemonitoring

Reliability Reliability growth

curvesReliability models

Reliability

(blocks)analysisReliability

estimation

Software reliability

engineeringReliability

certification

Operational profile-

based automatedtesting

Soak testing

(continuousoperation)

Availability: fault

identification and

fault tolerance

Fault trees Failure Modes and

Effect Analysis

(FMEA)Failure probability

analysis

Fault zones

Passive redundancy

Active redundancy

Fault injection

testing

Precision Mathematical models

of algorithm behavior

Numerical analysis Algorithm design /

selection

Checking against

hand-computedresults

Plugging resultsback into equations

Security Block diagrams

Operational views(e.g. sequence

diagrams)

Threat response

analysis, what-ifanalysis

Authentication,

capabilities, securityzones, validation of

inputs, trust levels,active detection

Threat injection

testing

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Safety Use cases

Fault trees

FMEA Formal methods Reliability testing,

fault injection testing

Debuggability,

Testability[another mostly

internal concern]

Built-in self tests

Instrumentation

Usability Operability Operational profiles SUMI User observation

testing, surveys

Learnability Interface metaphors,

consistency

User observation

testing, feedback

Interoperability Collaboration

diagrams

Standards

conformance

analysis

Standardized

interfaces

Interoperability

testing

Administration:Installation etc.

Use cases Install scripts,patches,configurability

Test team experience

Evolvability Modifiability Structure diagrams(e.g. class diagrams)

SAAMDependencies

analysis

Modular design,Design patterns

Extensibility Structure diagrams SAAM Hooks, callouts

Scalability Control flowdiagrams

Computationalcomplexity analysis

Algorithm selection

Portability Class diagrams SAAM Layering

MiddlewareBusiness aspects Cycletime GANTT charts Time estimation Incremental dev.

Cost Budgets

Staffing

Effort estimation

Budgetary analysis

Reuse and domain

engineering,technology use

Reusability Class diagrams Developing reusablesoftware

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Component-based

developmentDomain engineering

The table above is just my own understanding. It is incomplete and evolving.