Hidden Beliefs in Verification Decisions: An Experimental Study with Aerospace Engineering Students
摘要
System verificationVerification is used to check that the system has been built in accordance with its requirements. In executing a verification strategyVerification strategy, each verificationVerification activity produces certain information artifacts that are then used as evidence in the assessment of the compliance of the system against its requirements. The process of reasoning through verificationVerification artifacts is cognitive and subjective, as the engineer combines their knowledge and expertise along with the information available in the evidence collected through verificationVerification activities. Through an experimental study, this paper shows that engineering students, when formally articulating the justification to declare the compliance of a system, do not explicitly express some key information in their mental model to justify compliance.