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Given that software offshore outsourcing is a business relationship, we assume that a contract is required in order to define what services are requested from a contracted entity and how these services are to be delivered to the satisfaction of the contractor. We first argue that, at the heart of the quality assurance facets of such a contract, we must find a single testable model of both the functional and non-functional requirements of the system to be delivered. We present the key properties that such a model must exhibit: testability, executability, scenarios as grammars of responsibilities, and support for abstraction. We then observe that, typically, existing approaches to requirements engineering do not offer such characteristics. We conclude by briefly discussing a prototype conformance testing environment that supports these properties.
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Corriveau, JP. (2007). Testable Requirements for Offshore Outsourcing. In: Meyer, B., Joseph, M. (eds) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development. SEAFOOD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75542-5_3
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