Multifaceted Consistency Checking of Collaborative Engineering Artifacts

In modern day engineering projects, different engineers collaborate on creating a vast multitude of different artifacts such as requirements, design specifications and code. While these artifacts are strongly interdependent, they are often treated in isolation and with little regard to their semantical overlappings. Automatic consistency checking approaches between these artifacts are rare and often not feasible. Therefore, artifacts become inconsistent and the consequences are costly errors. This work proposes a multifaceted consistency checking approach for different kinds of engineering artifacts, with the help of a collaborative engineering platform. The proposed approach enables engineers to automatically check the consistency of their individual artifacts against the work results of other engineers, without using different tools than the established ones of their fields and without merging their artifacts with those of others.