This information, which is usually in the form of specifications, drawings, or schedule information, enables prompt identification, processing, and communication of discrepancies between actual and expected performance.
Textual specifications, that in the past were the original form of specifications, have been substituted by reference software which became the starting point of any design flow leading to implementation.
The Plug&Play evaluation pattern presented in this article describes such specifications in form of a technology independent task.
The first tool concerns the combination of design-by-contract with Larissa aspects, and shows how we can apply an aspect not only to a program, but to a specification of programs in form of a contract, and obtain a new contract.
While executable artifacts exist in the form of executable specifications (content and workflow schemata) in the content repository, too, the majority of executable artifacts in the analyzed system are classical software artifacts (programs written in Tcl, Javascript, SQL and HTML templates as used by OpenACS).
This language and the machine description (MD) libraries and tools are used to write complex machine descriptions and capture the design in a form of hierarchical specification, where each level in the hierarchy can be placed in a separate MD file.
I relayed this viewpoint in the form of some technical specifications to my nearest companion.
But building, say, an open-source car is rather more problematic, since information (in the form of design and specifications) constitutes only a minor ingredient: the costs of materials and manufacturing would remain.
Information could be in the form of overview, features, specifications and demos.
This paper takes a middle ground between 'regularity' and 'flexibility', offering a compromise in the form of a new specification termed 'REDS'REDS
