The Requirements Gathering Process

The software development lifecycle begins with the requirements gathering process.

The customer, developer, and users participate in requirements gathering.

The product of requirements gathering is the functional specification document (also called the requirements analysis document or RAD.)

The requirements gathering process is a combination of five major activities:

 

Lectures

Identifying Actors

Identifying Use Cases

Identifying Scenarios

Relationships Between Use Cases

Identifying Non-Functional Requirements

Validating Requirements

Labs

Use Case Labs

References

A Functional Specification Template (.doc)

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