The Syntactically Dangerous All and Plural in Specifications

Authors:
Daniel M. Berry;Erik Kamsties
Affiliations:
University of Waterloo;University of Duisburg-Essen
Venue:
IEEE Software
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The word "all" and the plural can be misused in ways that create ambiguities and other problems in computer-based system specification documents. The authors describe these and related misuses, the ambiguities and problems they can cause, and how to avoid them.