RE Theory Meets Software Practice: Lessons from the Software Development Trenches

Abstract

Based on our recent experience in four projects, each focused on either security-critical or safety-critical software, this paper evaluates several notions, widely held by Requirements Engineering researchers, for their utility in practical software development. It describes four notions which in our view work in practice and five others which do not.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA480012

Entities

People

  • Constance Heitmeyer
  • Myla M. Archer
  • Ralph Jeffords
  • Ramesh Bharadwaj

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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  • Space

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  • Abstracts
  • Actuators
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Concrete
  • Construction
  • Control Systems
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Language
  • Military Research
  • Monitoring
  • Natural Languages
  • Physiological Monitoring
  • Security
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Specifications

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  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Software Engineering.