[SystemSafety] C for OSs

[Olwen Morgan]

On 14/10/2019 20:48, Steve Tockey wrote:
>
> Most use of Agile today is as a project management process band-aid 
> trying to solve a requirements problem.


Sorry for frequent small postings ... things are occurring to me in fits 
and starts ... :

Back in the day, requirements elicitation was seen as a key skill of the 
systems analyst. Emphasis on this as a skill seems to have waned and it 
is, AFAI can see, often glossed over - if not entirely ignored - in much 
of the literature on high-integrity development. Maybe more emphasis 
should be given to it in the professional training of software engineers.

Another old hobby-horse of mine is the near-universal and abject 
incompetence of engineers in the practice of writing clear 
specifications in natural language. Courses on technical writing should 
be part of every engineer's training. IMO, a great part of the problem 
of poorly captured requirements is due to the lousy writing skills of 
the average engineer.


Olwen


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