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| % Het Waarom van je onderzoek | |||||
| Testing is an incredibly important part of the design process. | |||||
| Before a quality product is put into production, it has gone through extensive testing procedures. | |||||
| Likewise, new design methods have to be tested before they can be used in a design project. | |||||
| The \ac{ridm} is a proposed feature-based design method for rapid development of \ac{cps}. | |||||
| Using \ac{ridm} the system is divided into a set of features. | |||||
| Each feature represents a part of the system functionality. | |||||
| By implementing and testing one feature at the time it provides a structured method to deal with the complexity of \ac{cps}. | |||||
| % Het hoe van je onderzoek, de daarbij gebruikte methodes | |||||
| This thesis evaluates if the \ac{ridm} is a suitable design method for the hardware-side of \ac{cps}. | |||||
| For the evaluation, a system is designed using the \ac{ridm} as a case study. | |||||
| Prior to the case study, some adaptations are made in order to use the design method for hardware. | |||||
| These adaptations add steps to create the set of features for a given design problem. | |||||
| % De belangrijkste bevindingen | |||||
| The \ac{ridm} focusses more on how to implement the features and less on how to define the features. | |||||
| However, the case study showed that the method of defining features is crucially important to the outcome of the design process. | |||||
| Another important finding is that a feature cannot be described with functionality alone. | |||||
| To be able to implement and test a feature, it must describe requirements and components as well. | |||||
| Overall, the \ac{ridm} shows real potential to improve the design process of \ac{cps}. | |||||
| The approach to determine the order in which features are implemented greatly reduces the impact of design failures. | |||||
| Unfortunately, most of the \ac{ridm} is currently hindered due to a lack of tooling. | |||||
| % De belangrijkste aanbevelingen. | |||||
| The main findings in this thesis suggest that the \ac{ridm} must incorporate a holistic design process. | |||||
| This design process describes all development steps needed to get from a problem description, via the set of features, to a finalized product. | |||||
| Furthermore, tooling to organize and test the development is required to utilize all advantages the \ac{ridm} provides. | |||||