Software Requirements, 3rd Edition

Chapter 18. Requirements reuse

Sylvia, the product manager at Tailspin Toys, was meeting with the development lead for their line of tablet apps for musicians. “Prasad, I just learned that Fabrikam, Inc., is going to release a larger version of their tablet, called a Substrate. Right now our guitar amplifier emulator runs on their smaller tablet, the ScratchPad. We need to come up with a version for the Substrate. We can do more with the larger screen. The Substrate will come with the new release of their operating system, which will run on both.”

“Wow, this is great,” said Prasad. “I’d like to be able to show more amp controls on the screen. We can make the controls bigger and easier to manipulate, too. We can reuse a lot of the core functionality ...