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ABSTRACT

I've titled this article "Requirements Management", but I actually want to discuss several topics related to the collection, modeling, management, implementation, testing, and tracing of requirements in a software system. That's quite a list of topics associated with software requirements, but the requirement set is typically the starting point for building any software-based system. Sure, if you're prototyping or a hobbyist just messing around, you may be able to dive in and just start coding. But a professional software engineer, building a product for a customer, will use some form of requirements specification to describe what is to be built and to set the customer expectations on what the finished product will do.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.4 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
      H.4.3 Communications Applications
          Subjects: Information browsers

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
      D.2.0 General
      D.2.1 Requirements/Specifications

General Terms:
Theory