系统工程中的技术债务——系统的文献综述

IF 1.6 3区工程技术 Q4 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Systems Engineering Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI:10.1002/sys.21681

Howard Kleinwaks, Ann Batchelor, Thomas H. Bradley

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引用次数: 5

摘要

“技术债务”的比喻在软件工程中被用来描述在短期内可能是实用的，但可能有负面的长期影响的技术解决方案。在系统工程领域也存在类似的决策和动态。这项工作调查了当前的知识体系，以确定是否以及如何在系统工程领域中使用技术债务隐喻，以及哪个系统工程生命周期阶段最容易受到技术债务的影响。我们于2022年2月对354篇论文进行了系统的文献综述，其中18篇论文被认为与本研究相关。系统文献综述的结果表明，技术债务隐喻在系统工程研究中并不普遍，现有的研究仅限于特定领域和理论讨论。本文的结论是对未来工作的建议，以建立系统工程中技术债务的识别和管理的研究议程。

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Technical debt in systems engineering—A systematic literature review

The metaphor of “technical debt” is used in software engineering to describe technical solutions that may be pragmatic in the near‐term but may have a negative long‐term impact. Similar decisions and similar dynamics are present in the field of systems engineering. This work investigates the current body of knowledge to identify if, and how, the technical debt metaphor is used within the systems engineering field and which systems engineering lifecycle stages are most susceptible to technical debt. A systematic literature review was conducted on 354 papers in February 2022, of which 18 were deemed relevant for inclusion in the study. The results of the systematic literature review show that the technical debt metaphor is not prevalent within systems engineering research and that existing research is limited to specific fields and theoretical discussions. This paper concludes with recommendations for future work to establish a research agenda on the identification and management of technical debt within systems engineering.

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Systems Engineering 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

5.10

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Systems Engineering is a discipline whose responsibility it is to create and operate technologically enabled systems that satisfy stakeholder needs throughout their life cycle. Systems engineers reduce ambiguity by clearly defining stakeholder needs and customer requirements, they focus creativity by developing a system’s architecture and design and they manage the system’s complexity over time. Considerations taken into account by systems engineers include, among others, quality, cost and schedule, risk and opportunity under uncertainty, manufacturing and realization, performance and safety during operations, training and support, as well as disposal and recycling at the end of life. The journal welcomes original submissions in the field of Systems Engineering as defined above, but also encourages contributions that take an even broader perspective including the design and operation of systems-of-systems, the application of Systems Engineering to enterprises and complex socio-technical systems, the identification, selection and development of systems engineers as well as the evolution of systems and systems-of-systems over their entire lifecycle. Systems Engineering integrates all the disciplines and specialty groups into a coordinated team effort forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to realization to operation. Increasingly important topics in Systems Engineering include the role of executable languages and models of systems, the concurrent use of physical and virtual prototyping, as well as the deployment of agile processes. Systems Engineering considers both the business and the technical needs of all stakeholders with the goal of providing a quality product that meets the user needs. Systems Engineering may be applied not only to products and services in the private sector but also to public infrastructures and socio-technical systems whose precise boundaries are often challenging to define.