12 Requirements Specifications
In the preceding chapter, we discussed how to do requirements analysis. This activity involved interacting with a customer to discover what the product being developed is supposed to do. The result of the analysis is a requirements document that captures this understanding. The most important part of the requirements document is a requirements specification. This chapter describes how to write a requirements specification.
As we shall see, a program is a data object, and its specification will be similar to those we have already seen for abstract types. Specifications for abstract types rely on the overview section to define a model for the states of their objects. In those specifications, we were able to make ...
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