There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
—Rebecca West
Chapter 4
Requirements
“It’s not a good idea to introduce the uncertain linguistic subtleties of English verbs into system development documents.”
—Michael Jackson,Software Specifications and Requirements: a lexicon of practice, principles and prejudices
One builds to requirements. This fact is so ingrained in the software development process that it can be called a foundational assumption. Requirements are an agreement between the developer and the customer on what will be built and delivered. For custom application development, the requirements are given by the customer, who is ...
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