SOLVING THE ROOT CAUSE OF SOFTWARE COST OVERRUNS

Software requirements present issues

Levelling - are they abstract enough from the design?
Ambiguity - do they mean the same to every stakeholder?
Well-formedness - do they cover all aspects of the requirement?
Reviews – are subjective

This leads to mis-understanding, error and cost. Kapture® aims to solve these problems by assisting a developer to write clear, concise, unambiguous requirements. This is achieved by enabling precise definitions, providing a data dictionary and combining with text formats that enable well-formed requirements to be written.

This avoids much of the subjectivity related to review and hence reduces cost impact felt later in the software life cycle.

In Summary

• Reduces the opportunity for error
• Requirements are verifiable
• Simple compliance to standards
• Automatic checks for consistency

Kapture® in PRactiCe

Engineers charged with writing software requirements for embedded systems are likely to benefit from the use of Kapture®.

The right requirements assist developers to develop correct designs, coders to develop correct code, test engineers to develop valid test cases and hence achieve working software with fewer iterations.

This cuts costs and hence also helps project managers as well as enabling regulators understand what the software is supposed to do.

creating solutions

D-RisQ has used Kapture® to describe software for a number of systems including highly assured decision making for autonomous vehicles in air, maritime and sub-surface.

D-RisQ has also assisted automotive engineers to produce better software requirements and used Kapture® to help clients in aerospace find errors and better ways to write their software requirements.

KAPTURE®

GETTING THE RIGHT REQUIREMENTS EARLY IN THE SOFTWARE CYCLE

SOLVING THE ROOT CAUSE OF SOFTWARE COST OVERRUNS

Kapture® in PRactiCe

creating solutions

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