An SRS (Software Requirement Specification) is complete when the customer authenticates the as-designed production baseline, typically at FCA (Functional...
Sign off is for 'SRS' and it is the deliverable of 'Requirement Analysis (RA)' which is an important activity of 'Requirement Engineering'. Thanks & Regards R...
The functionality of a system has been defined when following has been done: * The functions within the scope of the system have been decomposed to a level...
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Dear all I'm looking for people who have several years experience in requirements engineering and who would be willing to participate in a short telephone...
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Hello: My name is Dave Henderson and I am a doctoral student at Virginia Tech majoring in Information Systems. I am conducting a web-based survey for my...
Hi I want to discuss the gold-plating features for software development. Gold plating called as "adding features to the system that are not specified in the...
Kasim, Sensitive area here. Simply gold-plating a product is a supplier risk. It dilutes your resources, and you end up possibly delivering features with...
I have been asked to create "as-built requirements" for a complex application in maintenance mode. At present, I don't have the application installed, and I...
Is anyone aware of metrics that help estimate the time required for development of requirements for both new applications and applications in maintenance mode?...
Hello Sara I am doing Mphil in software engineering and currently doing final thesis related to requirements engineering. I am also working as Business and...
The as-designed configuration is documented in an SRS (Software Requirement Spec or Type B-5). The as-built product configuration is documented in an SPS...
Yes, see the Constuctive Cost Estimation Model (COCOMO) work of Dr. Barry Boehm. ... Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. ...
Assuming you may deliver 'dead-code' (we cannot) there may be evolving future features or planned re-use items hidden from the customer, that could be...
Interesting. My boss has reviewed this model and discarded it as not useful. I'll take a look at it again. Are there any other models you can suggest? ...
Why did your boss discard COCOMO? The US Air Force and Navy support the model. Was there some level of discomfort with 'counting' lines of code? My employer...
Jean: There is always a need for an "As Is" analysis. When I took the Yourdon class on data flow diagramming, they told us that ninty-eight percent (98%) of...
Tony - Your comments regarding use cases are very interesting to me. I tend to think of an application as a collection of use cases derived from a user ...
The reason for the 98% figure is so that you understand the architecture and components of the system already in place. Then...with that understanding you can...
Jean: The first step in functional modeling is so important! The primary reason data flow diagrams were invented was to address the overwhelming tendency of ...
Good Question Tony, First let me start off by saying I would rather use activity diagrams rather than use cases to model processes any day of the week. The...
Dear Jean one defines it as % of total project efforts and is organization specific, derived based upon the logged-in RA-efforts in past projects. Often...
I have found in my experience that modeling a totally manual process is quite effective. I have used use cases augmented with workflow models using the UML...
I realize that I'm coming late to this discussion, so if this has already been mentioned, I apologize. One question: why do you have to do requirements on the...
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