Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach

Chapter 25. A Modern Software Requirements Specification

Key Points

• The Modern SRS Package is a collection of artifacts describing the complete external behavior of the system. It creates a conceptual model of the system to be built.

• The Vision document serves as input to the Modern SRS Package. The former is a broad statement of user needs, goals and objectives, target markets, and system features; the latter focuses on the details of implementing those features.

• The "right balance" of techniques is typically a mix of use-case modeling and traditional requirements specification.

Now that we have refined our understanding of the system, it's time to develop a strategy to organize and document the requirements. Although much of the effort involved ...