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George Koelsch, Requirements Writing for System Engineering, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2099-3_12

12. Supplementing or Replacing Standard Requirements

George Koelsch

(1)Herndon, Virginia, USA

The entire book up until this point was spent talking about requirements as purely shall statements. This concept of requirements was the foundation of the waterfall development methodology, starting with hardware and then translated to software. However, other types of requirements are referred to such as user stories, use cases, and modeling. Now you will be exposed to these types of requirements and how you can use them to supplement or replace shall statements. This and the next two chapters will discuss each topic so that you will be able ...

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