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Requirements Engineering is considered the most important phase of the life cycle of software products because it specifies the needs of the customers, and it is also the basis for the execution of the other phases of software engineering. The models currently used to perform the requirements elicitation have been proposed and widely documented, but they are focused only on the techniques to collect information, disregarding the activity of properly documenting this information. Moreover, to structure the requirements specification, natural language continues to be used as a means of communication and understanding with the customer. Due to the ambiguities caused by this language, its interpretation becomes difficult, and this leads to reprocesses in the later stages of the software life cycle. According to the above, it is necessary for software development organizations to consider formalizing the process of requirements elicitation if they wish to make their development process more efficient. A literature review is carried out in this paper to determine the process and evolution of the formal methods from the requirements engineering perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Formal specification is an active research field in software engineering of this century, where different configurations and techniques are employed and although their industrial use is still limited, the scientific community currently has a different understanding about its usefulness and necessity. Until present time, researchers' work focuses on the specification written during the design of the preliminary functional model, for this reason it mainly focuses on evaluating the related tools. In this paper, a literature review is performed, covering the essence, function, use and disadvantages of formal specification techniques and some assessment and evaluation criteria are analyzed regarding their weaknesses. The results become the basis for future work formulation, aimed to the strengthening of formal specification as a core research activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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