Paper Info
Title
Ongoing software development without classical requirements
Abstract
Many prominent open source software (OSS) development projects produce systems without overt requirements artifacts or processes, contrary to expectations resulting from classical software development experience and research, and a growing number of critical software systems are evolved and sustained in this way yet provide quality and rich functional capabilities to users and integrators that accept them without question. We examine data from several OSS projects to investigate this conundrum, and discuss the results of research into OSS outcomes that sheds light on the consequences of this approach to software requirements in terms of risk of development failure and quality of the resulting system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/RE.2013.6636716
Requirements Engineering Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
project management,public domain software,software engineering,OSS development projects,critical software systems,development failure,open source software development projects,software requirements,open source requirements,open source software,provisionments
Systems engineering,Software peer review,Package development process,Computer science,Software development process,Software requirements specification,Goal-Driven Software Development Process,Software development,Social software engineering,Software requirements
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
21
0.80
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas A. Alspaugh126621.31
Walt Scacchi21717430.01