@inproceedings{basili81,
title = {Evaluation of a software requirements document by analysis of change data},
address = {San Diego, USA},
author = {Victor R. Basili and David M. Weiss},
booktitle = {Intl Conf. on Software Engineering},
pages = {314--323},
publisher = {IEEE Press},
url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=800078.802544},
year = {1981},
description = {Not previously uploaded},
abstract = {We describe in this paper an effective data collection method for
evaluating software development methodologies, from definition of
the objectives of the data collection to analysis of the results.
We show how the data analysis can answer questions with respect
to how successfully the goals of the development methodology are
met. The A-7 requirements document is used as an example. We provide
the results of data analyses conducted partway through the A-7 flight
software development cycle, and discuss the utility of information
obtained by such partial analyses. Results from the study show that
data collection is feasible and useful when performed as part of
configuration control, that data distributions based on partial
data provide useful feedback to the developers, and that the A-7
Requirements Document is easily maintained and changed.},
comment = {- interesting case study that looked at a req. doc and changes to
that document for a large scale complex system - most problems found
were factual errors in the spec - difficult to generalize I would
think - seemed to want to test the methodology as well as the notion
- their method was a particular set of forms.}, isbn = {0897911466}, citeulike-article-id = {623754}, priority = {0},
keywords = {evolution requirements }
}
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