[Year 12 SofDev] Non-Functional requirements - SRS

[Mark KELLY]

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".

Maybe I misinterpreted you.  Were you wondering whether SRS statements
should be formulated as objectives rather than goals?

On 3 March 2011 11:04, Claudia Graham
<claudia.graham at overnewton.vic.edu.au>wrote:

>  Good distinction Mark, however objectives are measurable and should be
> written in a way that allows them to be ‘measured’ during evaluation.
>
>
> 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..
>
>
>
> Claudia
>
>
>
> *From:* sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
> sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Mark KELLY
> *Sent:* Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:50 AM
> *To:* Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Non-Functional requirements - SRS
>
>
>
> Hi Claudia. I think of nonfunctional requirements as if they were *
> adjectives*, e.g. the software must *be:* fast, reliable, accurate,
> secure.
>
> The functional requirements I treat as *verbs*, e.g. it should be able to
> * do*: process, sort, print, calculate, display, store, search.
>
> In a way *both* of them are objectives in that the developers want to
> achieve them.
>
> On 3 March 2011 10:10, Claudia Graham <
> claudia.graham at overnewton.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Found this good article on non-functional requirements.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/02/nonfunctional-requirements-how.html
> >
> >
> >
> > It reads a lot like ‘objectives’ is anyone else sort of thinking along
> that
> > line when students identify them in SRS?
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Claudia
> >
> >
> >
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