Timeline for Prescriptive and descriptive models of SW development - why it is not clear?
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| Aug 9, 2016 at 14:01 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | What is the problem in the question? ISO chose to co-opt the terms and change them to mean something different from their dictionary definitions. Consequently, if you want to understand those terms within the context of the ISO documents, you'll have to mentally substitute the definitions that ISO has provided. If you want to know why ISO did that, you'll have to ask them. If you want to know why it's not clear, the answer should be self-evident: this is what happens when you start changing the meanings of words. | |
| Aug 9, 2016 at 6:01 | comment | added | John V | @RobertHarvey It does not help to solve the problem in the question :) | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 13:42 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Then what's the problem? Use their definitions. | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 11:38 | comment | added | John V | @RobertHarvey Quoting Software Engineering Processes: Principles and Applications (2000): Definition 2.4 A descriptive process model is a model that describes "what to do" according to a certain software process system. Definition 2.5 A prescriptive process model is a model that describes "how to do" according to a certain software... | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 11:35 | comment | added | John V | @RobertHarvey No, there are different context for these terms, however in terms of SW modeling, the common (mentioned also in books) definition is that prescriptive is normative, telling exactly how to proceed, while descriptive is just describing the properties of the result, goal but not specifying the way to get there. | |
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 2:31 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Your understanding of these terms is almost certainly wrong. Prescriptive means "This is a rule." Descriptive means "describing or classifying without expressing feelings or judging," or "not a rule." | |
| Aug 8, 2016 at 2:24 | history | edited | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2016 at 2:20 | answer | added | candied_orange | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 20:58 | comment | added | Alex | This is interesting. If looking at the use of descriptive vs. prescriptive in regards of grammar , which for some reason filled my google results, it's not "what" vs. "how", but rather "is" vs. "should". Is it not the same in this domain? | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 16:35 | history | edited | John V |
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| Aug 7, 2016 at 15:39 | comment | added | John V | @Henry Yes, I would assume the same. A simple check in Google books, some claim ISO 9001 is clearly descriptive as it only says "what" but not "how", others claim that those requirements are actually prescribing so ISO 9001 is prescriptive. I am puzzled how something like that is still a subject of subjective judgement.. | |
| Aug 7, 2016 at 11:33 | comment | added | Henry | I would say ISO 9000 is prescriptive in its descriptivism. It requires (i.e. prescribes) companies to document (i.e. describe) how they intend to meet its quality management principles and what has actually been done, but it does not impose a single detailed model on different companies. | |
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| Aug 7, 2016 at 10:40 | history | asked | John V | CC BY-SA 3.0 |