Process System Engineering Modeling: A Software Engineering Perspective

VIDONI, MELINA; CUNICO, MARIA LAURA; VECCHIETTI, ALDO

Orlando

Conferencia; 2019 AICHE Annual Meeting; 2019

AICHE

In this work, it is tackled two issues related to the development and implementation of mathematical models having a large program life cycle. First, in consideration that mathematical programs interventions, as well as software developments, have common stages and similar information evolution, guidelines to adapt agile methods to manage math program projects are presented. On the other hand, since it is frequent that OR models must be modified because of new requirements or changes in the targeted problem, a key quality attribute to be considered is maintainability. To cover this attribute, it is proposed a set of simple techniques to include in the models and measures and indicators to check if said qualities have been achieved. These concepts are exclusively developed for OR and are based on international standards in SE, such as ISO/IEC 25010 (ISO/IEC, 2011), and the tactics proposal from the Software Engineering Institute (Bachmann et al., 2007).