The SE Tool Interoperability Plug-Fest
This is the home of the Systems Engineering Tool Interoperability Plug-Fest,
an activity co-hosted by NIST and
DoD's Systems and Software Engineering office.
The Plug-Fest provides an environment for SE tool developers to assess
the
interoperability of their implementations. Interoperability
among SE tools is essential to the development of complex systems and system-of-systems
(SoS) analysis. Such work often involves the collaboration of many disparate organizations.
This work environment usually does not permit organizations to standardize on a single SE
tool, and often not even on the same standard (e.g., SysML(tm)). The Plug-Fest will provide
an environment for evaluating the interoperability of tools within the context of a
single exchange standard, and across standards.
Scope
Since the purpose of the plug-fest is to foster tool interoperability, the primary focus
is the exchange of SE data among tools that implement standardized SE data interfaces.
Initially, interfaces supported within the scope of the plug-fest will include selected
model interchange aspects of the following specifications:
- SysML XMI
- AP233 (Part 28)
- CADM (DoD Core Architecture Data Model) XML, version 1.02
The Plug-Fest is designed as a series of "challenge problems" or
"exercises" that are intended to allow participants to assess the
interoperability of their tools. For more detailed information about the procedure,
see the page
"What we do". For a look at
the exercises, see the page
"Exercises".
References
Slides from the 2006-09-27 OMG SE DSIG meeting (Anaheim):
.pdf
.ppt
.odp
Slides introducing this work, presented 2006-06-26 at the OMG ManTIS / SE DSIG joint meeting (Boston):
.pdf
.ppt
A more detailied discussion of plug-fest scope in relation to each of these technologies can be found
here.
The design of the Plug-Fest is inspired by the
CAx Implementor Forum.
Definitions
- Conformance testing assesses whether
tool characteristics' violate normative statements of the specification.
- Interoperability testing assesses the ability
of tools to share information among each other, and thus the ability of parties
possessing differing tools to work jointly toward a goal.
Send questions or comments to
se-interop@nist.gov.
Date Created: April 24, 2006
Last Modified: July 27, 2009
