Specification Complexity and Validation.

Abstract

This paper addresses the inherent difficulties of Large-Scale Software Development projects with respect to producing valid specifications and rigorous acceptance test data. The techniques presented here use the information provided by data flow diagrams (DFDs) to develop a mathematically precise model which identifies and quantifies the complexity of the processes within a system. This in turn will provide an accurate validation of the specifications against user requirements as well as the information from which acceptance tests can be derived. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 04, 1984
Accession Number
ADA141419

Entities

People

  • T. J. Mccabe

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acceptance Tests
  • Algorithms
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Department Of Defense
  • Fungi
  • Graph Theory
  • Matrix Theory
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Terminals
  • Test Beds
  • Test Sets
  • Validation
  • Vector Spaces

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Software Engineering
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