Accession Number:

ADA235643

Title:

Software Specifications: A Framework.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIV PITTSBURGH PA SOFTWARE ENGINEERING INST

Personal Author(s):

• Rombach, H.D.

Report Date:

1989-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

44.0

Abstract:

This curriculum module presents a framework for understanding software product and process specifications. An unusual approach has been chosen in order to address all aspects related to specification without confusing the many existing uses of the term. In this module, the term specifications refers to any plan or standard according to which products of some type are constructed or processes of some type are performed, not to the products or processes themselves. In this sense, a specification is itself a product that describes how products of some type should look or how processes of some type should be performed. The framework includes 1 A reference software life-cycle model and terminology 2 A characterization scheme for software product and process specifications 3 Guidelines for using the characterization scheme to identify clearly certain life-cycle phases and 4 Guidelines for using the characterization scheme to select and evaluate specifications techniques.

Descriptors:

• *SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
• *SPECIFICATIONS
• PHASE
• LIFE CYCLES
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• MODELS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE