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Functionality
What is the software supposed to do? This should include the following:
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Validity checks on the inputs
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General responses to abnormal situations, including: overflow, communication facilities, error handling and
recovery
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Effects of parameters
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Relationship of outputs to inputs, including input/output sequences and formulas for input to output
conversion
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External interfaces
| How does the software interact with people, the system's hardware, other hardware, and other software? |
Performance
| What is the speed, availability, response time, recovery time of various software functions, etc.? Are both static and
dynamic requirements included? |
Logical database requirements
Have all logical requirements been specified for any information that is to be placed into a database? This may include the
following:
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Types of information used by various functions
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Frequency of use
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Accessing capabilities
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Data entities and their relationships
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Integrity constraints
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Data retention requirements
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Standards Compliance
| Have all requirements derived from existing standard and regulations been specified? How will this be traced? |
Attributes
| What are the reliability, availability, portability, correctness, maintainability, security, etc. considerations? |
Design constraints imposed on an implementation
| Are there any required standards in effect, implementation language, policies for database integrity, resource limits,
operating environment(s), etc.? |
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