Towards a Cloud-native Tool for Model-based Systems Engineering of Spacecraft

Kurzfassung

The landscape of modeling tools for Model-based Systems Engineering is largely dominated by desktop applications. While these tools are highly advanced, their deployment is often challenging, especially if used by large teams. For each machine they are used on, installation and updating must be managed. Also, these applications often require considerable hardware resources. Transforming MBSE tools to use web and cloud technologies can alleviate these issues. We propose a cloud-native architecture as an example for transforming Eclipse-based tools. It is inspired by a set of requirements that have been identified by consulting several experienced domain experts. A prototype implementation shows that almost all of the must-be requirements can be fulfilled or partially fulfilled by utilizing existing cloud-native technologies. Finally, we con ducted performance measurements, which showed that the overhead of cloud technologies decrease with increasingly complex computations.