How To Compare the Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Method with Other Methods

The Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) method, developed at the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute, provides a systematic way to identify security requirements in a software development project. This report describes SQUARE and then describes other methods used for identifying security requirements, such as the Comprehensive, Lightweight Application Security Process, the Security Requirements Engineering Process, and Tropos, and compares them with SQUARE. The report concludes with some guidelines for selecting a method and a look at some related trends in requirements engineering.

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Author

Nancy R. Mead

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Security and Survivability

Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2007-TN-021
August 2007

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SEI:

Mead, Nancy; How To Compare the Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Method with Other Methods (CMU/SEI-2007-TN-021). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tn021.cfm

IEEE:

N. Mead, "How To Compare the Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Method with Other Methods," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2007-TN-021, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tn021.cfm

APA:

Mead, N., (2007). How To Compare the Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Method with Other Methods (CMU/SEI-2007-TN-021). Retrieved June 19, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tn021.cfm

CHI:

Mead, Nancy, How To Compare the Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Method with Other Methods (CMU/SEI-2007-TN-021). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tn021.cfm

MLA:

Mead, N., 2007. How To Compare the Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) Method with Other Methods (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TN-021). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tn021.cfm

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