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A comparison of techniques for the specification of external system behavior

By Alan M. Davis
Communications of the ACM, September 1988, Vol. 31 No. 9, Pages 1098-1115
10.1145/48529.48534
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The elimination of ambiguity, inconsistency, and incompleteness in a Software Requirements Specification (SRS) document is inherently difficult, due to the use of natural language. The focus here is a survey of available techniques designed to reduce these negatives in the documentation of a software product's external behavior.

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