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Consequences
If a suitable surrogate is found, the research may benet in terms of time, eort,
and/or cost. Finding a suitable surrogate, however, may be dicult. Additional
care needs to be taken to make sure that the use of the surrogate does not bias the
research results.
Usage Example(s)
In Fraser et al. (1991), the authors use structured analysis as a surrogate for an
informal requirements specications language and vienna development method as
a surrogate for a formal requirements specications language.
Connection to TRIZ Inventive Principles
is pattern is related to the TRIZ inventive principle (Altschuller 2005; Gericke
2009), P27: cheap short-living objects (see Table 6A.1 in Chapter 6), which ...