Analysis of Requirements for the Design of a Detector Control System in a High Energy Physics (HEP) Experiment
This work addresses the design of control software for a specific domain (High-Energy Physics experiments), but it is incremental as it applies existing methodologies without introducing new methods or results.
The authors tackled the design of a Detector Control System for a High-Energy Physics experiment by proposing the use of the Rational Unified Process to model it, specifying functional and non-functional requirements and use cases using UML tools.
In this work the use of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to model the design of a Detector Control System (DCS) in a High-Energy Physics (HEP) experiment is proposed. We include a brief description of the wide diversity of elements and aspects to be considered and general definitions for the analysis of requirements. The characteristics, functional and non-functional requirements and Use Cases (UC) of main actors involved in the design, implementation and operation of this type of software systems are also specified. For the description of these requirements, tools of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) like diagrams and tabular use cases are used by means of the Enterprise Architect software.