Behavior Quote by Nancy Leveson

“Software quality begins with the quality of the requirements.”

— Pearl Zhu

In software, we rarely have meaningful requirements. Even if we do, the only measure of success that matters is whether our solution solves the…

— Jeff Atwood

The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build the most important function that software builders do for…

— Fred Brooks

“These needs, then, are just as real as any other requirements; we refer to them here as required constraints or design constraints, and they…

— Derek Hatley

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

“Therefore the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

What [software] must not do is not the inverse of what it must do. .

— Nancy Leveson

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

— Bruce Tognazzini

To treat programming scientifically, it must be possible to specify the required properties of programs precisely. Formality is certainly not an end in itself.…

— Jim Horning

The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program…

— Fred Brooks

“Remember that code is really the language in which we ultimately express the requirements. We may create languages that are closer to the requirements.…

— Robert C. Martin

Requirements represent the medium of exchange between IT and the business.

— John Williams