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Abstract: This paper explores the validity of the advice to specify what and not how for requirements, including quality requirements. In several specific domains, it may be necessary to say How to make the What precise enough. Keywords: what, how, requirements specifications, quality requirements, text formatting, robustness, security, safety, survivability, feature conflicts, bagels Introduction We have all read requirements that appear to be telling us how to implement a computer based system ... (Update)
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.... function of the CBS and not its implementation, to describe it from the user s point of view and not the implementer s point of view [11, 17, 4]. This advice is correct, but carrying it out is not appreciably less difficult than the original task. This advice is one of those...
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Berry, D.M., "What, Not How? When Is `How' Really `What'? and Some Thoughts on Quality Requirements, " Technical Report, Computer Science Department, University of Waterloo (2001). http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/berry01what.html More
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on Quality Requirements, Technical Report, Computer Science Department,
University of Waterloo (2001).",
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