Title :
An approach to software requirement specification
Author :
Yau, Stephen S. ; Liu, Chung-Shyan
Author_Institution :
Comput. & Inf. Sci. Dept., Florida Univ., Gainesville, FL, USA
Abstract :
An approach to software requirement specification using a structured bipartite inheritance network is presented. A bipartite inheritance network is a network with two different kinds of basic nodes, data entity and action, which are independent of each other and structured into an inheritance hierarchy. A structured bipartite inheritance network has a substructure, which is used primarily to decompose a large-scale software system into subsystems. This approach has the advantages that in software requirements specification both the data entities and functional components are explicitly specified such that it will be easier to identify and localize the requirement changes and are unified in a common structure so that the requirement specification will be easier to understand. A patient monitoring system is used to illustrate the specification procedure.<>
Keywords :
graph theory; medical computing; software engineering; action; data entity; functional components; inheritance hierarchy; large-scale software system; medical computing; patient monitoring system; software engineering; software requirement specification; structured bipartite inheritance network; Application software; Computer science; Humans; Large-scale systems; Patient monitoring; Programming profession; Software engineering; Software systems;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1988. COMPSAC 88. Proceedings., Twelfth International
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-0873-0
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1988.17154
