Software Best Practices

All, You may have noticed one short paragraph at the end of the call: using the term "non-functional." Although there is some precedent from many years ago when people didn't know any better, the adjective "non-functional" is abhorrently inappropriate. Nonfunctional is an actual...

Hello Stan, Welcome to the Conversation! You are right, my question is slightly different than the Call. I figured that before I put a tremendous amount of effort in trying to write an article, I would check to see if doing non-functionals early is one of those things that, while correct and a good idea...

Not to draw too fine a distinction, but the emphasis in the Call that was kindly quoted is on the TRADEOFF among quality attributes. I understand that that's not your question, so i just wanted to make sure that the intent of the Call was clear. Carry on!

IEEE Software Magazine Special Issue Software Quality Requirements: How to balance competing priorities Submission Deadline: 1st September 2007 - Publication: Mar/Apr 2008 How do you define quality in your software products? How do you express the level of quality that stakeholders might desire? How...