Title
Assessment of Real-Time Software Specifications Quality Using COSMIC-FFP
Abstract
The success of a system development project largely depends on the non ambiguity of its system-level requirements specification document where the requirements are described at the 'system level' and not at the software and hardware level, and which document serves as an input to the design, implementation and testing phases. The way the system requirements specification document is written is sometimes ambiguous from a software viewpoint. This paper approaches the problem faced by the codesign, namely, the ill-defined functionality allocation between the hardware and the software for real time systems and presents an initial solution to it. It discusses what are the system requirements to be assigned to the hardware and what is really to be done by the software? Different decisions can lead then to various alternatives of allocation of functions between hardware and software: this will affect what software will be built and, correspondingly, the final functional size of software while measuring it using COS-MIC-FFP measurement method. This paper presents an initial solution towards understanding the applicability of the COSMIC-FFP functional size measurement method in assessing the hardware-software requirements allocation, and illustrates the approach on a Steam Boiler Controller case study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/978-3-540-85553-8_15
IWSM/Mensura
Keywords
Field
DocType
software viewpoint,system level,ill-defined functionality allocation,hardware-software requirements allocation,initial solution,system development project,real-time software specifications quality,real time system,system requirement,hardware level,system requirements specification document,codesign,real time systems,real time,software requirements,software specification
Software design,Real-time computing,Engineering,Software construction,Software verification and validation,Software requirements specification,System requirements,Functional specification,Reliability engineering,Software measurement,Software requirements
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
4895
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manar Abu Talib13510.23
Adel Khelifi2989.03
Alain Abran3996204.62
Olga Ormandjieva431737.11