A Structured Approach to Support Collaborative Design, Specification and Documentation of Communication Protocols

Fabian Ohler, Markus C. Beutel, Sevket Gökay, Christian Samsel, Karl-Heinz Krempels

2018

Abstract

Especially in complex software development projects, involving various actors and communication interdependencies, the design of communication protocols is crucially important. In this work, a structured approach to support the design, specification and documentation of communication protocol standards is presented. To do so, we refer to a complex use case, dealing with the integration of multiple mobility services on a single platform. This endeavor requires the development of a large number of independently usable protocol standards which adhere to a multitude of quality aspects. A structured approach is required to speed up and simplify development and also to enable synergies between these protocols. Our requirements analysis methodology consists of interviewing domain experts to identify important aspects and shortcomings of the current development process and to elicit potential improvements. These intermediate results are prioritized and incorporated into a requirements specification for a standardized communication protocol development process. Furthermore, we assess existing software solutions in terms of their applicability.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ohler F., Beutel M., Gökay S., Samsel C. and Krempels K. (2018). A Structured Approach to Support Collaborative Design, Specification and Documentation of Communication Protocols.In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-300-1, pages 367-375. DOI: 10.5220/0006787503670375

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase18,
author={Fabian Ohler and Markus C. Beutel and Sevket Gökay and Christian Samsel and Karl-Heinz Krempels},
title={A Structured Approach to Support Collaborative Design, Specification and Documentation of Communication Protocols},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2018},
pages={367-375},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006787503670375},
isbn={978-989-758-300-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - A Structured Approach to Support Collaborative Design, Specification and Documentation of Communication Protocols
SN - 978-989-758-300-1
AU - Ohler F.
AU - Beutel M.
AU - Gökay S.
AU - Samsel C.
AU - Krempels K.
PY - 2018
SP - 367
EP - 375
DO - 10.5220/0006787503670375