Turning Potential Requirements into Written Requirements


During the trawling and prototyping activities, the requirements you find are not always precise. They are ideas or intentions for requirements, and sometimes extremely vague and half-formed. By contrast, the requirements specification you intend to produce is the basis for the contract to build a product. As a consequence, it must contain clear, complete, and testable instructions about what has to be built. The task we tackle in this chapter is turning the half-formed ideas into precise statements of requirement.

This translation is not always straightforward, and we have found it useful to have some help. To do so, we make use of a specification template and a requirements shell. The template is a ready-made guide to writing a specification, and the shell is the container for an individualwe shall call it an "atomic"requirement. Let's look first at the knowledge you are accumulating when producing a specification.




Mastering the Requirements Process
Mastering the Requirements Process (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 0321419499
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 371

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