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Surviving Titanic Non-functional Requirements
Volume-Issue: 
2007-04
Article Summary: 

Everyone knows the importance of well-defined functional requirements. We want our products to work, don't we? But how many of us are paying as much attention to defining our non-functional requirements? In this historically focused feature, we learn from past mistakes the potentially disastrous results of inadequately tested NFRs.