Title :
Software requirements practices: some real data
Author :
Laplante, Phillip A. ; Neill, Colin J. ; Jacobs, Craig
Author_Institution :
Great Valley Graduate Center, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
Abstract :
There is little empirical data available on actual practices of software professionals for software requirements elicitation, development of the requirements specification documents and validation of the specification. An exploratory survey of several hundred software and systems practioners was conducted and the results from 194 respondents are analyzed. Several surprising results emerged regarding the pervasiveness of object-oriented and formal methodologies as well as the perceived real value of various approaches.
Keywords :
formal specification; formal verification; object-oriented methods; statistical analysis; empirical data; software requirements specification; software requirements validation; Databases; Design methodology; Indexing; Jacobian matrices; Knowledge engineering; Prototypes; Software design; Software engineering; Software quality; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering Workshop, 2002. Proceedings. 27th Annual NASA Goddard/IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-1855-9
DOI :
10.1109/SEW.2002.1199458
