Soft goal Totally Explained

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In ice hockey, a soft goal can also refer to a goal that's the result of a weak effort, or none at all, and should have been a routine save. The term soft goal is used in connection with modeling languages and specially with goal-oriented modeling. Soft goals can represent:

Non-functional requirements
Relations between non-functional requirements Non-functional requirements (or quality attributes, qualities, or more colloquially "-ilities") are global qualities of a software system, such as flexibility, maintainability, usability, and so forth. Such requirements are usually stated only informally; and they're often controversial (for example management wants a secure system but staff desires user-friendliness). They are also often difficult to validate.

Why soft?

Normally a goal is a very strict and clear logical criterion. It is satisfied when all sub-goals are satisfied. But in non-functional requirements you often need more loosely defined criteria, like satisficeable or unsatisficeable. The term satisficing was first coined by Herbert Simon. Soft goals are goals that don't have a clear-cut criterion for their satisfaction: they're satisficed when there's sufficient positive and little negative evidence for this claim, while they're unsatisficeable in the opposite case.

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