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Early on in its development, you ought to get your argument reviewed by someone else; preferably your Customer, if you have one. This chapter introduces additional notation that you can use to let your reviewers know where in your Goal Structure there is more to be done. These additions include the Goal to be Developed symbol, which is also known as Undeveloped Goal. Some people like to add explanatory notes to their Goal Structures; this chapter also suggests some symbols for this, but note that they are not part of the formal notation and they can clutter your diagrams. Finally, I start development of a checklist that may be used by the reviewer of arguments presented in GSN; the author of such arguments should always use it…

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  • Kelly TP (2007) Reviewing assurance arguments—a step-by-step approach. In: Proceedings of a workshop on assurance cases for security—the metrics challenge, Dependable Systems and Networks, July 2007

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Spriggs, J. (2012). The Argument is Ready for Review…. In: GSN - The Goal Structuring Notation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2312-5_9

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