System Requirements Engineering

3Definition of Stakeholders’ Needs

3.1. Case study

In order to apply our method to a case study, we have chosen to apply the subject proposed in the RobAFIS™ 2018 competition [ROB 18]. This competition is intended to students and members of associations or clubs of universities in any engineering discipline (systems, electronics, software, mechanics, hydraulics, etc.) from the license (L) level up to the PhD level (European levels LMD).

All information is available on the competition website (www.robafis.fr), and in particular:

• – the competition rules, which define the conditions for registration, the general calendar of the competition and the different stages of the competition;
• – the specifications, which define the mission to be fulfilled by the system, the constraints applicable to its design and implementation, the characteristics of the environment and the technical conditions for carrying out the evaluation;
• – the development framework, which defines the requirements applicable to the production and supply of the folder for system engineering and specifies the conditions for its evaluation.

The system studied in 2018 concerns the automation of a radioactive waste flow within a nuclear waste reprocessing center. Within the framework of the competition, it is a question of making a prototype in a mock-up environment.

In order to deploy the method on different processes, we do not start from the specifications provided by AFIS, but from a very general need with its ...