behavioral specifications

[Jim Barrow]

>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.