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The Problem Statement
Issues, Importance, and Impacts
on Software Development
Hansjörg von Brevern
UNDERLYING ISSUES
DeMarco (1996) observed that “ill-specied systems are as common today as they were when we
rst began to talk about requirements Engineering.” One major problem child at the threshold from
business to software development is the form of requirements and the manner of how well they
are formulated by business for software engineering. Subsequently, ambiguous descriptions foster
software failures. Throughout the various stages of software development, different stakeholders
want different levels of abstraction and views, which, ...