Process Heuristics to Achieve Requirements Speciications of Feasible Quality

The notion of quality in requirements speciications is poorly understood, although recent frameworks such as those of Lindland et al. and Pohl have tried to take a more systematic approach to the problem area. A major weakness of these frameworks is that they are on a high level of abstraction, and thus have little in the form of practical guidelines to ooer practitioners. Based on an extension of the Lindland framework this article proposes a set of process heuristics for guiding decisions in the requirement speciication process. Although the heuristics are incomplete, the framework has thus been brought a signiicant step closer to practical applicability