Software requirements

In software engineering, software requirements deals with establishing the needs of stakeholders that are to be solved by software.

Description

The IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Technology defines a software requirement as:

• A condition or capability needed by a user to solve a problem or achieve an objective.
• A condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system or system component to satisfy a contract, standard, specification, or other formally imposed document.
• A documented representation of a condition or capability as in 1 or 2.

Areas

The activities related to working with software requirements can broadly be broken up into:

• Elicitation
• Analysis
• Specification
• Management

See also

• Quality assurance
• Computer programming
• Software development process
• User (computing)

External links

• Software requirements @ Wikipedia