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It is often felt that the use of formal specification techniques (FSTs) precludes the use of informal, structured specification techniques (ISTs). Research on integrated FSTs and ISTs (FISTs) has shown that this is not necessarily the case, and that the use of formal techniques can enhance the use of informal specification techniques and vice versa.
In this paper we describe the applicability of FISTs to requirements engineering along two dimensions: process support, and formal-informal transformations. We illustrate aspects of these dimensions with results from student requirements engineering projects that involved the use of a Structured Analysis (SA) and Z FIST.
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France, R.B., Larrondo-Petrie, M.M. (1995). A two-dimensional view of integrated formal and informal specification techniques. In: Bowen, J.P., Hinchey, M.G. (eds) ZUM '95: The Z Formal Specification Notation. ZUM 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60271-2_135
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