What is a Software Requirements Specification?

by thulashi 2014-06-07 12:55:58

Software Requirements Specification Document

The IEEE 830 standard defines the benefits of a good SRS:

  • A Complete description of the software's purpose and functionality.

  • Details as to how the software will perform in terms of speed, response time, availability, portability, maintainability, recovery speed and more

  • Use cases of how users will use the software

  • The definition of how the application with interact with other hardware and program

  • Non-functional requirements (e.g: performance engineering requirements, quality standards, or design constraints)


Why is it important?

  • Save time on communication

  • Minimize development efforts

  • Gives the customer feedback

  • Eliminate task duplication

  • Facilitate the transfer to new users or to new machines

  • Breaks problems down into parts

  • Serves as the main document to verify the validation and testing processes

  • Referring to past SRS documents helps identify deficiencies and process flaws.


Simple SRS outline :

  • Purpose

  • Scope

  • System Overview

  • References

  • Definitions

  • Use Cases

  • Functional requirements

  • Non-functional requirements

 

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