SQUARE-Lite: Case Study on VADSoft Project

June 1, 2008 • SEI Report

By
Ashwin Gayash, Venkatesh Viswanathan, Deepa Padmanabhan, and Nancy R. Mead

In this 2008 report, the authors describe SQUARE and SQUARE-Lite, and using SQUARE-Lite to develop security requirements for a financial application.

Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

CMU/SEI Report Number

CMU/SEI-2008-SR-017

DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

10.1184/R1/6584315.v1

Topic or Tag

Abstract

This report is the first by the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute to focus on the practical application of the SQUARE-Lite security requirements engineering method. Three case study reports about applying the Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) process, from which SQUARE-Lite is derived, were published previously.

In this report, the SQUARE and SQUARE-Lite methods are briefly described, and a student team presents the results of working with a client using SQUARE-Lite to develop security requirements for a financial application.

@techreport{gayash_2008, author={Gayash, Ashwin and Viswanathan, Venkatesh and Padmanabhan, Deepa and Mead, Nancy}, title={SQUARE-Lite: Case Study on VADSoft Project}, month={Jun}, year={2008}, number={{CMU/SEI-2008-SR-017}, institution={Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University}, doi={10.1184/R1/6584315.v1}, url={https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6584315.v1}, note={Accessed: 2026-Aug-16} }