Impuls3 has a particular focus on the following product / service development processes:
- Requirements Engineering
- Design Engineering
- Decision-making
- Testing (Verification / Validation)
- Risk management
- Integration
- Configuration- and Change management
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The Requirements traceability is established by the Requirements Engineering process, the Design and Decision-making process. Top-down relations are created between the Requirements and the Design Decisions: is satisfied by; between Design Decisions and derived Requirements: leads to.
Equivalent bottom-up relations between Requirements and Design Decisions: is derived from and between Design Decisions and Requirements: satisfies.
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The image below depicts a larger data model that includes elements like Concept, Variant, Aspect, Baseline, Implementations and Instances.
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