CHAPTER Integrating SysML into a Systems Development Environment 18 This chapter describes the approach and considerations for integrating SysML into an overall systems development environment. This includes a discussion of the relationship between the system model and other models that support development, the different tool roles in the development environment, the logical interfaces between systems modeling tools and other tools in the environment, configuration and data management concepts, approaches to data exchange between tools, and criteria for selecting a SysML tool. Other aspects of deploying SysML to an organization are discussed in Chapter 19. 18.1 UNDERSTANDING THE SYSTEM MODEL'S ROLE IN THE BROADER MODELING CONTEXT