SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

DAG Directed Acyclic Graph

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Engineering

It is widely recognized within the software industry that software engineering projects are critically vulnerable when these activities are performed poorly.

An essential property of all software requirements is verifiable.

Some software requirements generate implicit process requirements.

Process requirements may also be imposed directly by the development organization, their customer, or a third party such as a safety regulator.

UML Unified Modeling Language SysML Systems Modeling Language

Software Requirements Knowledge Area (KA) refers to the collection, analysis, specification and validation of software requirements.

Software requirements express the requirements and constraints on a software product that contribute to solving some real-world problem.

Some requirements represent emergent properties of software

Nonfunctional requirements are the ones that act to constrain the solution.

Functional requirements describe the functions that the software is to execute;

Software requirements should be stated as clearly and as unambiguousl y as possible

In this topic, system means an interacting combination of elements to accomplish a defined objective.