David Lightstone
06-24-2003, 04:49 AM
"Dave Harris" <brangdon@cix.co.uk> wrote in message
news:memo.20030624003735.5515A@brangdon.madasafish.com... david._NoSpamlightstone@prodigy.net (David Lightstone) wrote (abridged): "The program should be faster than competing programs" or "its robots should beat the other robots". They are open-ended. Don't be silly. Those are not requirements. Whatever you call them, they are things you are required to do in order to win.
The English language is such a marveleous thing.
Requirements describe the system being developed, not the tasks which the
developer must perform in order to accomplish the development
Requirements describe the system being developed, not the reason the system
needs to be developed
-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK
news:memo.20030624003735.5515A@brangdon.madasafish.com... david._NoSpamlightstone@prodigy.net (David Lightstone) wrote (abridged): "The program should be faster than competing programs" or "its robots should beat the other robots". They are open-ended. Don't be silly. Those are not requirements. Whatever you call them, they are things you are required to do in order to win.
The English language is such a marveleous thing.
Requirements describe the system being developed, not the tasks which the
developer must perform in order to accomplish the development
Requirements describe the system being developed, not the reason the system
needs to be developed
-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK