2.2. Requirements and specifications
Requirements
The development of a software product begins with a requirement for a certain kind of program and a brief specification for what such a program might be. The requirement is a little like a question and the specification is like an answer. Put a little differently, the requirement is like a request and the specification is a proposed solution.
The usage of the words ‘requirement’ and ‘specification’ is somewhat fluid, and you will find different conventions in different books on software engineering. In Software Engineering and Computer Games, we treat the requirement as a request for a certain kind of software and a specification as a proposed description of the software. And we stress that ...
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