4. Resources to find out more

4.1 The tools

There is a wide range of tools available for systems engineering, which can be complemented by other tools that are not necessarily, or not exclusively, systems-engineering oriented, but which can contribute to or support it. Some target very specific aspects, while others aim for a more general vocation.

It would be ambitious, even illusory, to claim to have a complete overview: the database of systems engineering tools compiled by INCOSE, still at the construction stage, lists over 1,600 of them!

Rather than listing all of them, at the risk of singling out one or more publishers, we will simply propose a non-definitive classification:

• tools to support the architectural modeling...