Both functional and non-functional specs could be made specific enough to qualify as objectives. Instead of "fast" you could specify "Fast enough to process a day's worth of invoices in 10 minutes".<br>
<br>Maybe I misinterpreted you. Were you wondering whether SRS statements should be formulated as objectives rather than goals?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2011 11:04, Claudia Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au">claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Good distinction Mark, however objectives are measurable and should be written in a way that allows them to be ‘measured’ during evaluation.</span></p>
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So for me ‘Fast’ is a little like writing ‘efficient’ doesn’t say much. However if it was ‘the system (solution) shall update totals at least every 20 secs in a designated area of the totals form’ this is more informative but am I expecting too much..
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Claudia</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Hi Claudia. I think of nonfunctional requirements as if they were
<i>adjectives</i>, e.g. the software must <b>be:</b> fast, reliable, accurate, secure.<br>
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The functional requirements I treat as <i>verbs</i>, e.g. it should be able to <b>
do</b>: process, sort, print, calculate, display, store, search.<br>
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In a way <i>both</i> of them are objectives in that the developers want to achieve them.<br>
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On 3 March 2011 10:10, Claudia Graham <<a href="mailto:claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
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> Found this good article on non-functional requirements.<br>
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> <a href="http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/02/nonfunctional-requirements-how.html" target="_blank">
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> It reads a lot like ‘objectives’ is anyone else sort of thinking along that<br>
> line when students identify them in SRS?<br>
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> Claudia<br>
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