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Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems
book

Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems

by Phillip A. Laplante
March 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 40m
English
CRC Press
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87
5Chapter
Requirements Risk
Management
What Is Requirements Risk Management?
To motivate the notion of requirements risk, here is a vignette.* On a road that the
author travels, he passes a strange street sign that declares “End brake retarder pro-
hibition.” e meaning of this sign is hard to understand, and is blurred by the
curious use of a quadruple negative (each word in the directive has the connotation
of stopping something). As it turns out, this sign is an exquisite example of a “shall
not” requirement as well as illustrating a poor requirements specification, namely,
one that is ambiguous, vague, contradictory, incomplete, or contai
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ISBN: 9781420064681