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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Mark, each question brings more questions but am enjoying the discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yes probably I would like to see them as objectives.. but does that then mean the ‘purpose of the solution’ should /could be written as a list of goals.. because
you really can’t have objectives without linking them to some set of goals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark KELLY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 3 March 2011 1:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Non-Functional requirements - SRS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">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>
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Maybe I misinterpreted you. Were you wondering whether SRS statements should be formulated as objectives rather than goals?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 3 March 2011 11:04, Claudia Graham <<a href="mailto:claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au">claudia.graham@overnewton.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Good distinction Mark, however objectives are measurable and should be written in a way that allows them to be ‘measured’ during evaluation.</span><o:p></o:p></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" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Claudia</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">
<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">sofdev-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark KELLY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Non-Functional requirements - SRS</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">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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> <br>
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> Found this good article on non-functional requirements.<br>
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> <br>
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> <a href="http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/02/nonfunctional-requirements-how.html" target="_blank">
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/02/nonfunctional-requirements-how.html</a><br>
><br>
> <br>
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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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> Regards<br>
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> Claudia<br>
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