I'm trying to establish more formal requirements and testing procedures then we have now, but I can't find any good reference examples of documents involved. At the moment, after feature freeze testers "click through the application" before deployment, however there are no formal specification what needs to be tested. First, I'm thinki...
I have been looking for a collaborative tool for developing functional specifications. I am looking for the ability to: Have multiple users contribute to the specification. Provide some form of traceability, which could be done manually if needed. Provide users with the ability to add comments and notes. Upload and display Visio d...
We recently changed some of our system requirements on a light weight application (it is essentially a thin gui client that connects to a "mainframe" that runs IBM UniVerse). We didn't change our minimum requirements at all, but changed our recommended requirements to match those of Windows 7 and Vista (since we run on those machines). ...
I'm doing some research for an article I'm writing about the process of getting from the requirements to production. I met with some of my peers last week and they had some interesting ideas. As a quick background, this company is a small web development agency. They have 2 great in-house business development managers (BDM, some places...
I've just finished the implementation of my software system and now I have to document whether it has satisfied its requirements. What sort of information should I include and how should I lay it out? My initial functional and non-functional requirements was in a two-column table and looked something like this: FN-01 The system should...
I'm coming from a big design background, and just learning TDD/BDD so bear with me if this is a simple question. It seems that many client decisions aren't actually recorded anywhere - they're just documented in the code and tests. So my question is: what happens when the client changes some of these undocumented decisions? How do yo...
In many embedded applications there is a tradeoff between making the code very efficient or isolating the code from the specific system configuration to be immune to changing requirements. What kinds of C constructs do you usually employ to achieve the best of both worlds (flexibility and reconfigurabilty without losing efficiency)? If...
What tools are available out there to make writing and maintaining software documentation easier? Specifically what do you use to document requirements? What do you use to document your design? What do you use to document how your software is tested? How do you trace requirements back to your design and test documentation? Or is all...
I recently read through Code Complete, and it recommends that I create a project specification before actually coding. The book didn't go very far into detail about what 'specs' are, and how they are made. Because this is a crucial part of software development, I would like to know how to create quality specs that are not too exhaustive...
Hi, I'm currently gathering different requirments over banking website development, and one of the part which I want to know deeply is "saving account" . What the internal working do I have to keep in mind for making a website over "saving account" part? Thanks in advance. ...
G'day, I was reading the item Quantify in the book "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" (sanitised Amazon link) and it got me wondering how to quantify scalability. I have designed two systems for a major British broadcasting corporation that are used to: detect the country of origin for incoming HTTP requests, or determi...
hello, i need 'sed' for some batch; now there are a lot of requirements; could anyone tell me how to put all the requirements and sed itself to run in one dir?? [so no need for install, that it works] 'Cause i need to get the batch file public, all that requirements seem to give a lot of work for the users... ...
I’m developing application with JBoss AS 5 with a special configuration according to my needs (Web container, ejb3 and JMS) IDE: My Eclipse 6.5 Hardware: Apple macbook 2.3Ghz, 2Gb ram MyEclipse hot deploy works fine, but when I need to change method’s sign or introduced new classes the system ask for a reboot of the JBoss. This slows ...
Code can be perfect, and also perfectly useless at the same time. Getting requirements right is as important as making sure that requirements are implemented correctly. How do you verify that users' requirements are addressed in the code you're working on? ...
Say we've got requirements for all the functionality we want to build. Each requirement is listed in a Word doc with an associated ID. For instance, Requirement 123 is "each refund, if processed the same business day as the last payment, should be processed as a cancellation and will incur no refund processing fee". What I'd like is for...
I just bit the 5 for $5 bait add here on StackOverFlow... Has anyone used or installed it yet? I can't find system requirements anywhere. I assume I need a PHP web server with MySQL, but in my rushed search couldn't come up with anything. Any best practices I should plan for? I did order the free book as well. ...
Hi gang, In my organization, developing rough UI layouts is part of the role of the business user during the requirements phase. I'm interested in finding a resource or collection of resources to assist the Biz in getting UI prototypes together to add to requirements documents. So far, I've discovered http://wufoo.com/ to quickly mock ...
At a small software company, we have several developers who are very competent programmers but who have no formal Software Engineering training. As part of their career development it is time to offer them greater responsibilities, particularly at the earlier stages of the software lifecycle. What good training material is available abo...
I've been working on a large, multi-year project as a web architect. So far, my responsibility has been to take requirements documentation provided by the customer's analyst and translate them into technical design documentation. The 'powers that be' suggest that I take over the requirements documentation and combine them with my effor...
We have a .net WPF application running as both XBAP and Desktop etc.I haven't signed any assemblies etc.My question is that Q1.What kind of Digital Certificate do I need to purchase from VeriSign, Inc., or another certificate authority. to sign my application,use it as Authenticode Certificate (in clickonce) ? Q2.Can I use this Digita...