Documenting the requirements

Documenting the requirements

1. The software requirements especification

   • SRS states
     • Subcontractors
     • Training Personnel
     • Maintenance
     • Software development
     • Customers
     • Project Managers
     • Testers
     • Documentation Writers
     • Legal Staff
   • Labeling requirements
     • Sequence number
     • Hierarchical numbering
     • Hierarchical textual tags
   • Dealing with incompleteness
   • User interfaces and the SRS

2. A software requirements specifcation template

   • Introduction
     • Purpose
     • Document conventions
     • Project scope
     • References
   • Overall description
     • Product perspective
     • User classes and characteristics
     • Operating environment
     • Design and implementation constraints
     • Assumptions and dependencies
   • System features
     • System feature X
     • Description
     • Functional requirements
   • Data requirements
     • Data dictionary
     • Reports
     • Data acquisition, integrity, retention, and disposal
     • Logical data model
   • External interface requirements
     • External interface requirements
     • Software interfaces
     • Hardware interfaces
     • Communications interfaces
   • Quality attributes
     • Usability
     • Performance
     • Security
     • Safety
     • Others
   • Internationalization and localization requirements
   • Other requirements

3. Requirements specifcation on agile projects