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Preliminary study to empirically investigate the comprehensibility of requirements specifications

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2005
Abstract
This paper presents a pilot study to test plans for an empirical study, which will compare the comprehensibility of two specifications: a formal specification and an informal specification. The two documents used in the pilot study implemented the same logic, namely a portion of the Irish Electoral system. The “informal specification” was taken directly from the legal definition of the count rules for Irish elections. A formal requirements specification language was not employed for the pilot study. In place of a formal requirements specification language, the java programming language was used. Our main motivation for using the java programming language is based on an empirical study carried out in [19].
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peer-reviewed
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Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG)
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Proceedings of PPIG 05;
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Lero - The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software
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Irish electoral system, java programming language
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https://researchrepository.ul.ie/handle/10344/2615
 https://doi.org/10.34961/420
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Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Sustainable Development Goals
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Meetings and Proceedings
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