Explorative Prototypes


What is explorative prototyping?
Explorative prototyping is a technique for supporting the requirements analysis. Its goal is to clarify requirements (in the user requirements specification or provisional software requirements specification) in terms of function sequences, user interfaces or quality requirements. A prototype is produced from the initial ideas about the system or parts of the system. This prototype should then be used to concretize and define these ideas in dialog with the customer (or rather, with the user).

An explorative prototype is not intended (and is generally not suitable) to be further developed into a product!

Differences to other types of prototyping:
Experimental prototypes are used to demonstrate feasibility and are employed to support feasibility studies, system design and detailed design (see "Prototypes" in the Definition phase).

Evolutionary prototypes are generally not discarded, but are further developed step-by-step to the final product (a separate life cycle approach exists for this purpose in stdSEM). An agreed software requirements specification is essential for using prototyping as the life cycle approach (see Life cycle approach Prototyping).


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