Everything about Software requirements specification

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Software requirements specificationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: AI-augmented usability evaluation framework for software requirements specification in cyber physical human systemsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Managing software requirementsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Detecting defects in software requirements specificationCited 84 times
5. Go sideways: Concept of operationsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Requirements engineeringA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Detecting defects in software requirements specification

  Amira A. Alshazly, Ahmed M. Elfatatry, Mohamed S. Abougabal · 2014 · Alexandria Engineering Journal · 84 citations

• Multifunctional software systems: Structured modeling and specification of functional requirements

  Manfred Broy · 2010 · Science of Computer Programming · 42 citations

• A formal software requirements specification method for digital nuclear plant protection systems

  Junbeom Yoo, Taihyo Kim, Sungdeok Cha · 2005 · Journal of Systems and Software · 36 citations

• Annotation of Software Requirements Specification (SRS), Extractions of Nonfunctional Requirements, and Measurement of Their Tradeoff

  Muhammad Asif, Ishfaq Ali, Muhamad Sheraz Arshed Malik · 2019 · IEEE Access · 30 citations

• A method of software requirements specification and validation for global software development

  Naveed Ali, Richard Lai · 2015 · Requirements Engineering · 23 citations

• Global Analysis: moving from software requirements specification to structural views of the software architecture

  C. Hofmeister, R.L. Nord, D. Soni · 2005 · IEE Proceedings - Software · 21 citations

• People, Organizational and Technological Dimensions of Software Requirements Specification

  Fernando Belfo · 2012 · Procedia Technology · 19 citations

• System security requirements: A framework for early identification, specification and measurement of related software requirements

  Kenza Meridji, Khalid T. Al-Sarayreh, Alain Abran · 2019 · Computer Standards & Interfaces · 19 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• AI-augmented usability evaluation framework for software requirements specification in cyber physical human systems

  Sandeep Gupta, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · 2023 · Internet of Things · 13 citations

• A Non-Exclusive Multi-Class Convolutional Neural Network for the Classification of Functional Requirements in AUTOSAR Software Requirement Specification Text

  Sanjanasri Jp, Vijay Krishna Menon, KP Soman · 2022 · IEEE Access · 13 citations

• Fault-Prone Software Requirements Specification Detection Using Ensemble Learning for Edge/Cloud Applications

  Fatin Nur Jannah Muhamad, Siti Hafizah Ab Hamid, Hema Subramaniam · 2023 · Applied Sciences · 11 citations

• An Automatic Generation and Verification Method of Software Requirements Specification

  Xiaoyang Wei, Zhengdi Wang, Shuangyuan Yang · 2023 · Electronics · 8 citations

• What Should a Good Software Requirements Specification Include? Results of a Survey

  Karolina Rączkowska-Gzowska, Anita Walkowiak-Gall · 2023 · Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Managing software requirementsDean Leffingwell · 1999
• 📕An introduction to requirements capture using PVSRicky W. Butler · 1996
• Introduction to Requirements EngineeringIan K Bray, Ian Bray · 2002
• 📕Communication problems in requirements engineeringAmer Al-Rawas · 1996

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