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Requirement

In engineering, a requirement is a condition that must be satisfied for the output of a work effort to be acceptable. It is an explicit, objective, clear and often quantitative description of a condition to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service.

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Product versus process requirements

Types of requirements

Characteristics of good requirements

Documenting requirements

Changes in requirements

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Requirement

Nodes62
Edges61
Triples86
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032258
Components1

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Requirement

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related to Process corruptions · 12
Requirement → CEO, CEO's, Coloring, Doing, Examples, If, New, Process, Showing, The, This, Users
related to Types of requirements · 8
Requirement → Business Analysis, Business Analysis Body, For, FURPS, International Institute, Knowledge, Requirements, Types
related to Verification · 8
Requirement → All, As, Certain, If, Proper, Such, The, These
has effect · 7
Requirement → Agile, Instead, Many, Meanwhile, More, Requirements, Some
related to Origins of term · 7
Requirement → According, BABOK, Business Analysis Body, Guide, IIBA, Knowledge, The
related to Documenting requirements · 6
Requirement → Example, One, Other, Requirements, The, This
related to Multiple requirements taxonomies · 6
Requirement → Differing, DoD, For, IEEE, IIBA, There
related to Characteristics of good requirements · 5
Requirement → However, If, The, There, Traceability
related to Competing standards · 5
Requirement → Both, IEEE, IIBA, There, Two
related to Changes in requirements · 4
Requirement → For, Once, Requirements, This

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requirements process design software product development user must system example may engineering analysis condition used issues business different implementation specification

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Requirementis acondition that must be satisfied for the output of a work effort to be acceptable0.90text
Requirementis arelatively broad concept that can describe any necessary or desired function0.90text
agile software developmentinstance ofor service.A specification or spec is a set of requirements that is typically used by developers in the design stage of product development and by testers in their verification…0.80text
requirements are developed in parallel with designinstance ofor service.A specification or spec is a set of requirements that is typically used by developers in the design stage of product development and by testers in their verification…0.80text
implementationinstance ofor service.A specification or spec is a set of requirements that is typically used by developers in the design stage of product development and by testers in their verification…0.80text
rigorous inspection have been shown to help deal with these issuesinstance ofTechniques0.80text
Requirementhas effectMany0.60section
Requirementhas effectSome0.60section
Requirementhas effectRequirements0.60section
Requirementhas effectMore0.60section
Requirementhas effectMeanwhile0.60section
Requirementhas effectInstead0.60section

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