Towards a System Requirements Specification Template that Minimizes Combinatorial Effects

Author

Rodrigues da Silva, Alberto ; Verelst, Jan ; Mannaert, Herwig ; Almeida Ferreira, David ; Huysmans, Philip

Author_Institution

IST, Univ. de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

fYear

2014

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

124

Lastpage

129

Abstract

This paper introduces the problem of combinatorial effects based on the evidence of many dependencies that explicitly or implicitly exist among the elements commonly used on system requirements specification (SRS). We start from the analysis and comparison of three popular SRS templates (namely IEEE 830-1998, RUP and with all templates), mainly from the perspective of the constructs and models involved. Then we propose and discuss a set of practical recommendations to help defining a SRS template that may better prevent (to some extent) the referred problem.

Keywords

formal specification; program verification; IEEE 830-1998 template; RUP template; SRS templates; Withall template; combinatorial effect minimization; system requirements specification template; Business; Context; Context modeling; Sections; Software; Terminology; Unified modeling language; Combinatorial Effect (CE); SRS templates; System Requirements Specification (SRS);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), 2014 9th International Conference on the

Conference_Location

Guimaraes

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6132-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QUATIC.2014.22

Filename

6984101