The SysML v2 Visualization Origin Story
Systems Engineering is the discipline of integrating parts into a functioning whole. It is responsible for communicating needs and capabilities between stakeholders and specialists. In the early 2000s, members of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and the Object Management Group (OMG) joined together to create a graphical modeling language that was tailored to the needs of systems engineers. This produced the Systems Modeling Language, or SysML, built on top of the software-focused Unified Modeling Language (UML).
SysML v1 received mixed reviews from the systems engineering community after it was released in 2007. Its UML foundation saved designers of the language from reinventing core concepts in modeling and representation. And a community of UML tool vendors was ready to support it. However, SysML inherited UML’s weaknesses along with its strengths. There was a lack of connection between system structure and behavior. The representational approach was esoteric and rigid, making training difficult. Lack of interoperability between tools made sharing models painful. And ambiguous rules for completeness of diagrams relative to the model made many errors easy to create and hard to detect.
