This curriculum module is concerned with the definition of software requirements—the software engineering process of determining what is to be produced—and the products generated in that definition. The process involves all of the following: (1) requirements identification (2) requirements analysis (3) requirements representation (4) requirements communication (5) development of acceptance criteria and procedures. The outcome of requirements definition is a precursor of software design.
This module supersedes SEI-CM-1.
Curriculum Module
CMU/SEI-90-CM-019
January 1990
SEI:
Brackett, John; Software Requirements (CMU/SEI-90-CM-019). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/90cm019.cfm
IEEE:
J. Brackett, "Software Requirements," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Curriculum Module CMU/SEI-90-CM-019, 1990. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/90cm019.cfm
APA:
Brackett, J., (1990). Software Requirements (CMU/SEI-90-CM-019). Retrieved May 25, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/90cm019.cfm
CHI:
Brackett, John, Software Requirements (CMU/SEI-90-CM-019). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/90cm019.cfm
MLA:
Brackett, J., 1990. Software Requirements (Technical Report CMU/SEI-90-CM-019). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/90cm019.cfm
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