• DocumentCode
    3455194
  • 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
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    5-6 Dec. 2002
  • Firstpage
    121
  • Lastpage
    128
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Engineering Workshop, 2002. Proceedings. 27th Annual NASA Goddard/IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-1855-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SEW.2002.1199458
  • Filename
    1199458