Верификация требований к имитационной модели производственного предприятия

Бизнес-информатика. 2018. № 2 (44). С. 65–78.

Kravchenko T. K., Golov N., Fomin A., Lipatnikov A.

Developing variants of scenarios for a production enterprise’s achieving a desirable fi nancial
position using simulation modeling tools requires a specifi cation and verifi cation of requirements for
the simulation model. Availability of such variants of scenarios allows stakeholders to select the most
effi cient solution. The verifi cation is performed by business analysts and key stakeholders; the aim is
to assess readiness of the requirements for fi nal approval and to check that the requirements provide
all material information for future work. Verifi cation includes evaluating the requirements regarding
their compliance with the company’s business analysis standards, as well as assessment of the model’s
completeness and common terminology used for description of the requirements. Understanding the
desired solution, which meets all the stakeholders’ requirements, is the most important element in
requirements verifi cation.
For developing a simulation model, which is essential for determining variants of development
scenarios and covers fi nancial fl ows of a typical production company, a list of verifi ed requirements
is determined. Criteria of requirements verifi cation include not only acceptance criteria, but also
the Graphical Requirements Analysis framework (GRA framework), that is used for verifi cation of
functional requirements. The verifi ed requirements should be used at diff erent stages of constructing the simulation model, which is focused on development of scenarios for achieving the production enterprise’s desired future
fi nancial position. Modeling scenarios of future development of the types “what will happen, if…?”
and “what to do to achieve the goal?”, using simulation modeling systems allows one to dramatically
increase the quality of decision making.

Keywords: имитационная модель, сценарный анализ, scenario analysis, simulation model, верификация требований, критерии верификации, критерии приемки требований, GRA-фреймворк, verification of requirements, criteria for verification, acceptance criteria, GRA framework