Chapter 30. Tools for requirements engineering

Estelle finally got her SRS document completed and approved. Now James wants to add a requirement, but it messes up the numbering scheme, incrementing the labels for requirements that follow it in that section of the document. Estelle hopes that changing the requirement identifiers won’t cause problems for anyone already working from those requirements. Sean requests to delete a requirement. Estelle suspects that the requirement might come back into scope in the future, so she wonders where to put it and how to keep the developers from working on it now. Antonio asked Estelle yesterday why a specific requirement was included, but she didn’t have any way to answer that question.

One of the developers, ...

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