The syntactically dangerous all and plural in specifications

IEEE Software

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 55-57

  Berry, Daniel M ^a   Kamsties, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS; SYNTACTICS;

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION; SYNTACTIC PROBLEMS;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 19144373425     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2005.22     Document Type: Article

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6. D.M. Berry and E. Kamsties, "The Dangerous 'All' in Specifications," Proc. 10th Int'l Workshop Software Specification and Design (IWSSD-10), IEEE CS Press, 2000, pp. 191-194.