Tool-Supported Model-Driven Validation Process for System Architectures

Designing system architecture is still an error-prone process and a great challenge. The development of complex embedded systems like radar systems is very cost-intensive. Therefore it is important that system architects are supported by appropriate tools. Our UML-based process focuses on validating the architecture against system requirements and analyzing the impacts of requirement or architectural changes. In this paper we present a supporting tool providing automatization possibilities for the validation process. This is a major breakthrough as it reduces the need for repetitive, time consuming and mindless validation process to be conducted manually. The tool is able to handle all the requirements, including the requirements' interconnections with one another, and increase process usability.