Chapter 4 Writing the Requirements Document
Requirements Agreement and Analysis
Throughout the elicitation activity and especially before finalizing the systems requirements specification, raw requirements should be analyzed for problems and these problems reconciled. Requirements analysis is the activity of analyzing requirements for problems. Problematic requirements include those that are:
- Confusing
- Extraneous
- Duplicated
- Conflicting
- Missing
We make these concepts more rigorous in Chapter 6.
Requirements analysis is usually informal; for example, customers and stakeholder representatives are shown elicited requirements in a format that they can understand to ensure that the requirements engineer’s interpretation ...
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