Re: behavioral specifications

Subject: Re: behavioral specifications
From: Jim Barrow <vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:46:02 -0500 (CDT)

>Bill Swallow said:
>>Richard Lewis wrote:
>>>Jim Barrow wrote:
>>>>Benzi wrote:

>>>>Does anyone know what behavioral specs are, and where to find >>>>writing guidelines and an example or two? Apparently they're >>>>something similar to use cases.

>>>Sometimes 'behavioral specs' and 'functional specs' are >>>synonymous. Try dis:

>>>http://www.mojofat.com/tutorial/

>>A bunch of Use Cases equate to a disjointed functional spec.

>Not quite. Use cases inform the functional spec.


Richard, it sounds like you?re talking about something entirely different here, although I can understand what you?re getting at.

Benzi asked about Behavioral Specs. I haven?t heard that term in a while. In my last four jobs Functional Specs described the behavior of an application, software, etc. (what the expected landing screen for a specific action would be, what button A did, etc.).

At my current job, Use Cases are generated often. I ran into a problem when I found that there wasn?t one Use Case describing all of the ?allocation? features of our current software, there were eight Use Cases that described eight things that a user could allocate. Made it a challenge to put these together.

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