Chapter 14. To Duplicate or Not to Duplicate

It’s not unusual to discover that you need to replicate a specific requirement or piece of requirements-related information in multiple places in your project documentation. This poses a problem that has no perfect solution. On the one hand, it’s convenient to be able to view and print all the information associated with a specific issue, topic, function, feature, or use case in a single location. This lets you treat that block of information as a self-contained package. A developer who is responsible for implementing that block will have all the necessary information grouped together.

On the other hand, duplicating information ...

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