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The Computer Journal 1979 22(3):195-199; doi:10.1093/comjnl/22.3.195
© 1979 by British Computer Society
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Towards comprehensive specifications

S. J. Waters *

London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London, UK

This paper suggests that specifications should be more factually complete so that systems queries can be reduced; this would save much cost and time of analysts, designers, programmers, operators and the computer itself. Technical facts are defined for a specification's data dictionary, messages, data base and procedures and are checklisted so that documentation standards and higher level systems languages can be analysed for completeness – typical examples (e.g. ADS, NCC, PSL) seem to be more incomplete than they are complete.

Received February 1978.

* London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE


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