[IEEE_ISSAA] ISSAA Normative vs Informative
Stu,
Looking at the Functionality section, it is
the place where the normative words should go, and it is almost all
normative. The problem is that there is no specification of the overall
process. The introductory paragraph provides only a background
description. In the Model section, the introductory paragraph provides a
generic descriptive of the components, but nothing that approaches normative,
and nothing on the process.
We need a subsection in section 5 that
specifics the order of using the components, when to start at what we
designate as the beginning, and when to start some place else. Currently,
there are no words that even say: "... when finished with this component, go on
to that one...", and where is the process finished. Also, it would help a
lot if Figure 1 was moved to the beginning of Section 5, to accompany the
overall specification.
Section 6.2 comes close to specifying the
overall process. It could be rephrased to be more normative and
copied/moved to the beginning of Section 5.
T. Scott
Ankrum
Software Engineering
Center, MITRE
Life: "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing." Shakespeare
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