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Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems, 4th Edition
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Requirements Engineering for Software and Systems, 4th Edition

by Phillip A. Laplante, Mohamad Kassab
June 2022
Intermediate to advanced
428 pages
14h 8m
English
Auerbach Publications
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Chapter 4 Writing the Requirements Document

DOI: 10.1201/9781003129509-4

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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