Integration of Tool Support for Assurance and Certification and for Knowledge-Centric Systems Engineering

Assurance and certification are usually required for critical systems. The underlying activities can be complex and labour-intensive, thus tool support can greatly facilitate them. Companies are also adopting the notion of Knowledge-Centric Systems Engineering, which is based on the principle that there exists a knowledge base about any system that tools can exploit for e.g. system quality analysis. This paper presents the initial results towards the integration of both types of tool support to enhance systems engineering and certification. We have worked on the integration of the AMASS Platform for assurance and certification with the tools developed by The REUSE Company. The integration allows the latter tools to analyse the quality of assurance assets, trace them, and support semantic asset search, whereas the Platform can collect assurance evidence from quality analyses on different artefact types. This way, a unified approach for Knowledge-Centric Systems Engineering, assurance, and certification is enabled.