Structuring Inconsistency Situations in Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems - a Description Template Proposal

In today’s interdisciplinary world, mechatronic systems are evolving by taking advantage of software services. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are an example of such a progressive development. Since practitioners from various domains are involved in developing CPS, it is important to maintain consistency between the variety of artifacts produced. To understand the avoidance, discovery, analysis, and handling mechanisms, this paper proposes a template oriented to practitioners’ demands to collect data about inconsistency situations. By using this template, a data set with inconsistency situations based on industry practitioners’ workshops is provided. Researchers and practitioners can use this data to better understand and manage inconsistencies.