Ein gemeinsames Verständnis der verwendeten Begriffe ist die Grundlage für erfolgreiches RE. Das CPRE Glossar umfasst die Kernbegriffe des Requirements Engineering - es ist das zentrale Nachschlagewerk über alle CPRE Module und Ebenen hinweg! Das RE@Agile Glossar ergänzt das CPRE Glossar durch Begriffe für das Requirements Engineering im agilen Umfeld.
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Das CPRE Glossar: Die wichtigsten Begriffe des Requirements Engineering im Überblick
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In agile: Criteria that the implementation of a ↑user story must satisfy in order to be accepted by the ↑stakeholders.
Acceptance criteria may also be written for ↑backlog items other than user stories.
A test that assesses whether a ↑system satisfies its ↑requirements.
Typically used by ↑customers to determine whether or not to accept a system.
An action or a set of actions that a person or group performs to accomplish a ↑task .
A diagram type in ↑UML which models the flow of actions in some part of a ↑system including ↑data flows and areas of responsibility where necessary.
The degree to which a ↑requirement expresses the ↑stakeholders' true and agreed desires and needs (i.e., those they had actually in mind when stating the requirement).
Synonym: Agilität
1. In general:
(a) Able to move quickly and easily.
(b) Quick, smart, and clever.
2. In software development: A development approach which builds a product ↑incrementally by dividing work into ↑iterations of fixed duration ( ↑timeboxes ).
Agile development is characterized by focusing on delivering a working product in each iteration, collaboration with ↑stakeholders with frequent feedback and adaptation of plans after each iteration based on feedback and changed ↑requirements.
In UML: A relationship between two ↑classes in a ↑UML ↑class model.
Synonym: Change Control Board
A committee of ↑customer and ↑supplier representatives that decides on ↑change requests .
Abbreviation: CCB
The Change control board should not be confused with a change advisory board, which is a committee that evaluates change requests for a ↑system in operation and typically has no decision power.
A controlled way to effect or deny a requested change of a ↑work product.
In RE: A well-argued request for changing one or more ↑baselined ↑requirements.
A classification of requirements according to their kind into ↑system requirements (consisting of ↑functional requirements , ↑quality requirements and ↑constraints ), project requirements, and process requirements.
1. RE is primarily concerned with system requirements.
2. Quality requirements and constraints are also called ↑non-functional requirements .
The degree to which a ↑work product or ↑system can be modified without degrading its ↑quality .
1. A need perceived by a ↑stakeholder .
2. A capability or property that a ↑system shall have.
3. A documented representation of a need, capability or property.
1. Analysis of elicited ↑requirements in order to understand and document them.
2. Synonym for ↑Requirements Engineering.
A ↑baseline for a set of ↑requirements.
1. A situation where two or more ↑requirements cannot be satisfied together.
2. A situation where two or more ↑stakeholders disagree about certain ↑requirements.
Requirements conflicts have to be solved by ↑requirements negotiation.
A document consisting of a ↑requirements specification.
Requirements document is frequently used as a synonym for requirements specification.
Synonym: elicitation (of requirements)
The process of seeking, capturing and consolidating ↑requirements from available ↑sources, potentially including the re-construction or creation of requirements.
The process of managing existing ↑requirements and requirements-related ↑work products, including the storing, changing and tracing of requirements ( ↑traceability ).
A ↑model that has been created with the purpose of specifying ↑requirements.
Synonym: Verhandlung (von Anforderungen)
A ↑process where ↑stakeholders are working toward reaching an agreement to resolve ↑requirements conflicts.
The source from which a ↑requirement has been derived.
Typical sources are ↑stakeholders, documents, existing ↑systems and observations.
A systematically represented collection of ↑requirements , typically for a ↑system , that satisfies given criteria.
1. In some situations we distinguish between a ↑customer requirements specification (typically written by the customer) and a ↑system requirements specification or ↑software requirements specification (written by the supplier).
2. Requirements specification may also denote the ↑process of specifying ( ↑eliciting , documenting and ↑validating ) requirements.
Synonym: Anforderungsschablone
A template for specifying ↑requirements.
In RE, several forms of templates are used. ↑Phrase templates are used for specifying individual ↑requirements or ↑user stories . ↑Form templates can be used to specify ↑use cases or ↑quality requirements. ↑Document templates provide a predefined structure for ↑requirements documents.
A coherent chunk of work to be done.
Synonym: artifact
A recorded, intermediate or final result generated in a work ↑process .
→ Product backlog, → Sprint backlog
Synonym: Auftragsbestand
Synonym: Baseline
A stable, change-controlled ↑configuration of ↑work products.
Baselines serve for ↑release planning and release definition as well as for project management purposes such as effort estimation.
Synonym: Erledigungsdiagramm
A diagram plotting the work items that remain to accomplish on a time scale.
A person who uses the ↑functionality provided by a ↑system .
Users (also called end users) always are ↑stakeholders of a ↑system .
A ↑requirement expressing a ↑user need.
User requirements are typically about what a system should do for certain users and how they can interact with the system. User requirements are a subset of ↑stakeholder requirements .
A sequence of data items flowing from a producer to a consumer.
A diagrammatic representation of a ↑data flow model.
Abbreviation: DFD
A model that describes the ↑functionality of a ↑system by ↑activities , data stores and ↑data flows .
Incoming data flows trigger activities which then consume the received data, transform them, read/write persistent data held in data stores and then produce new data flows which may be intermediate results that trigger other activities or final results that leave the system.
Synonym: Bug
An imperfection or deficiency in a ↑work product that impairs its intended use.
Synonym: Gestaltung
1. A plan or drawing produced to show how something will look, function or be structured before it is made.
2. The activity of creating a design.
3. A decorative pattern [This meaning does not apply in the software engineering ↑domain ].
1. In software product development, we distinguish between creative design which shapes the look and feel of the product, i.e., its perceivable form, function and quality, and technical design (also called software design) which determines the inner structure of the product, in particular the software architecture.
2. The creative design of products is also called product design.
3. The creative design of digital solutions is called digital design.
A template providing a predefined skeleton structure for a document ( ↑Requirements template ).
In RE, document templates can be used to structure ↑requirements documents .
A range of relevant things (for some given matter); for example, an ↑application domain .
A ↑model describing phenomena in an ↑application domain .
1. In RE, domain models are created with the intention to understand the ↑application domain in which a planned ↑system will be situated.
2. Static domain models specify (business) objects and their relationships in a ↑domain of interest.
3. Domain story models specify visual stories about how actors interact with devices, artifacts and other items in a ↑domain .
Synonym: Erfüllung
The adherence of a ↑work product to ↑standards, conventions, regulations, laws, or similar prescriptions.
A tabular representation of a complex decision, specifying which actions to perform for the possible combinations of condition values.
The degree to which resources are expended in relation to results achieved.
An umbrella term for requirements ↑elicitation, ↑negotiation and ↑validation.
A diagrammatic representation of an ↑entity-realtionship model .
Abbreviation: ERD
A ↑model of data that are relevant for a ↑system or of the data of an ↑application domain , consisting of a set of entity types that are each characterized by ↑attributes and linked by relationships.
Abbreviation: ER Model
Synonym: Erzählung
In agile development: An abstract description of a ↑stakeholder need which is larger than what can be implemented in a single ↑iteration .
A pilot system forming the core of a ↑system to be developed.
A throwaway ↑prototype used to create shared understanding, clarify ↑requirements or validate ↑requirements .
Synonym: je nach Kontext: Objekt
Anything which is perceivable or conceivable.
The degree to which a ↑requirement is expressed such that it cannot be understood differently by different people.
1. A human action that produces an incorrect result.
2. A discrepancy between an observed ↑behavior or result and the specified behavior or result.
In practice, both meanings are used. Where needed, the meaning of error can be disambiguated by using human error and observed error or observed fault, respectively.
The capability of a ↑system to operate as intended despite the presence of (hardware or software) ↑faults .
Fault tolerance may be stated as a ↑quality requirement .
A distinguishing characteristic of a ↑system that provides value for ↑stakeholders .
A feature typically comprises several ↑requirements and is used for communicating with ↑stakeholders on a higher level of abstraction and for expressing variable or optional characteristics.
Synonym: Merkmalsdiagramm
A diagrammatic representation of a ↑feature model .
Synonym: Merkmalsmodell
A ↑model describing the variable features of a ↑product line , including their relationships and dependencies.
Synonym: Formularschablone
A template providing a form with predefined fields to be filled-in. ( ↑Requirements template )
In RE, form templates can be used to specify ↑use cases or ↑quality requirements .
A ↑requirement concerning a result or ↑behavior that shall be provided by a function of a ↑system .
The capabilities of a ↑system as stated by its ↑functional requirements .
A ↑requirement stating a business ↑goal , objective or need of an organization.
Business requirements typically state those business goals, objectives and needs that shall be achieved by employing a ↑system or a collection of systems.
The parts of a ↑product line that are shared by all its members.
Synonym: Standpunkt
A certain perspective on the ↑requirements of a ↑system .
Typical viewpoints are perspectives that a ↑stakeholder or stakeholder group has (for example, an end user’s perspective or an operator’s perspective). However, there can also be topical viewpoints such as a security viewpoint.
A term looking identical to another term, but having a different meaning.
For example, bill as a bank note and bill as a list (of materials) are homonyms.
An addition to a ↑system under development that extends, enhances or refactors ( ↑refactoring ) the existing parts of the ↑system .
In ↑agile development, every ↑iteration produces an increment.
A formal ↑review of a ↑work product by a group of experts according to given criteria, following a defined procedure.
1. In general: The repetition of something, for example, a procedure, a process or a piece of program code.
2. In agile development: A ↑timeboxed unit of work in which a development team implements an ↑increment to the ↑system under development.
In agile development, iteration and ↑sprint are frequently used as synonyms.
A representation of a set of ↑objects of the same kind by describing the structure of the objects, the ways they can be manipulated and how they behave.
A diagrammatic representation of a ↑class model.
A model consisting of a set of ↑classes and relationships between them.
1. In general: A delimitable part of a ↑system .
2. In software architecture: An encapsulated set of coherent ↑objects or ↑classes that jointly achieve some purpose.
3. In testing: A part of a ↑system that can be tested in isolation.
When viewed in isolation, a component is a ↑system by itself.
1. An ↑item that is composed of a set of items; forming a whole-part relationship.
2. The act of composing a whole from a set of parts.
A consistent set of logically coherent ↑items. The items are individually identifiable ↑work products or parts of work products in at most one ↑version per item.
The degree to which a ↑work product conforms to regulations given in some ↑standard .
The degree to which a set of ↑requirements is free of contradicting statements.
1. In general: The network of thoughts and meanings needed for understanding phenomena or utterances.
2. Especially in RE: The part of a ↑system's environment being relevant for understanding the system and its ↑requirements.
Context in the second meaning is also called the ↑system context.
The boundary between the ↑context of a ↑system and those parts of the ↑application domain that are irrelevant for the ↑system and its ↑requirements.
The context boundary separates the relevant part of the environment of a system to be developed from the irrelevant part, i.e., the part that does not influence the system to be developed and, thus, does not have to be considered during Requirements Engineering.
1. A diagrammatic representation of a ↑context model.
2. In ↑Structured Analysis, the context diagram is the root of the ↑data flow diagram hierarchy.
The degree to which the information contained in a ↑work product is provably true.
In RE, correctness is sometimes used as a synonym for ↑adequacy , particularly when validating a ↑requirement rigorously against formally stated properties in the ↑context of a ↑system .
A person or organization who receives a ↑system , a ↑product or a ↑service .
Also see ↑stakeholder .
A coarse description of the required capabilities of a ↑system from the ↑customer’s perspective.
A customer requirements specification is usually supplied by the customer.
A ↑requirement describing a performance characteristic (timing, speed, volume, capacity, throughput, ...).
In this glossary, performance requirements are regarded as a sub-category of ↑quality requirements. However, they can also be considered as a ↑kind of requirements of its own.
A committee that supervises a project.
The contrary of ↑unambiguity
The degree to which a ↑requirement for a ↑system can be implemented under existing ↑constraints .
The systematic application of a ↑technique (or a set of techniques) to achieve an objective or create a work product.
A medium-fidelity ↑prototype that demonstrates characteristics of a user interface without implementing any real ↑functionality .
In RE, a mock-up primarily serves for specifying and validating user interfaces.
An abstract representation of an existing part of reality or a part of reality to be created.
1. The notion of reality includes any conceivable set of elements, phenomena or concepts, including other models.
2. Models are always built for specific purposes in a specific context.
3. With respect to a model, the modeled part of reality is called the original.
4. In RE, ↑requirements can be specified with models.
Synonym: Attrappe, Prototyp im engeren Sinn
A high-fidelity ↑prototype that implements critical parts of a ↑system to an extent that ↑stakeholders can use the prototype to see whether the prototyped part of the system will work and behave as expected.
A ↑language that people use for speaking and writing in everyday life.
This is in contrast to artificial languages that people have deliberately created for specific purposes such as programming or specifying.
The degree to which an individual ↑requirement is a necessary part of the ↑requirements specification of a ↑system .
A ↑quality requirement or a ↑constraint .
↑Performance requirements may be regarded as another category of non-functional requirements. In this glossary, performance requirements are considered to be a sub-category of ↑quality requirements .
A formal, possibly mandatory set of regulations for how to interpret, develop, manufacture or execute something.
In RE, there are RE-relevant standards issued by ISO/IEC and IEEE.
1. In general: Anything which is perceivable or conceivable ( ↑item ).
2. In software engineering: an individual ↑item which has an identity, is characterized by the values of its ↑attributes and does not depend on another item ( ↑entity ).
A diagrammatic representation of an ↑object model .
The ease with which a ↑system can be transferred to another platform while preserving its characteristics.
A proven way of how to carry out certain types of ↑tasks or ↑activities.
The process of assigning priorities to a set of ↑items.
The level of importance assigned to an ↑item , e.g., a ↑requirement or a ↑defect , according to certain criteria.
A difficulty, open question or undesirable condition that needs investigation, consideration, or solution.
A set of interrelated ↑activities performed in a given order to process information or materials.
The notion of process includes business processes (e.g., how to commission and send ordered goods to ↑customers ), information processes (e.g., how to deliver records from a database that match a given query), and technical processes (e.g., cruise control in a car).
A software-based ↑system or a ↑service provided by a system which is developed and marketed by a ↑supplier and used by ↑customers.
Synonym: Produkt-Auftragsbestand
An ordered, typically prioritized collection of work items that a development team has to work on when developing or evolving a ↑system .
Items include ↑requirements , ↑defects to be fixed, or ↑refactorings to be done.
Synonym: Produktfamilie
A jointly managed set of systems (provided as products or services) that share a common core and have a configurable set of ↑variants for satisfying needs of particular customers or market segments.
The points in a product line where there is more than one ↑variant to select from are called ↑variation points.
Synonym: Produkteigner
A person responsible for a ↑product in terms of ↑functionality , value and ↑risk .
The product owner maintains and prioritizes the ↑product backlog , makes sure that the ↑stakeholders’ ↑requirements as well as market needs are elicited and adequately documented in the ↑product backlog and represents the stakeholders when communicating with the development team.
1. In manufacturing: A piece which is built prior to the start of mass production.
2. In software and systems engineering: A preliminary, partial realization of certain characteristics of a ↑system .
3. In design: A preliminary, partial instance of a design solution.
1. In RE, prototypes are used as a means for requirements ↑elicitation (see ↑specification by example ) and ↑validation .
2. Prototypes in RE can be classified
(a) with respect to their degree of fidelity into ↑native prototypes, ↑mock-ups and ↑wireframes;
(b) with respect to their purpose into ↑exploratory prototypes and ↑evolutionary prototypes.
Synonym: Prototypisieren
A ↑process that involves the creation and evaluation of ↑prototypes.
1. In general: The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics of an item fulfills ↑requirements.
2. In systems and software engineering: The degree to which a ↑system satisfies stated and implied needs of its ↑stakeholders.
Quality in this definition means fitness for intended use, as stated in the ↑requirements. This is in contrast to the colloquial notion of quality which is typically connoted with goodness or excellence.
A ↑requirement that pertains to a quality concern that is not covered by ↑functional requirements.
A ↑requirement that limits the solution space beyond what is necessary for meeting the given ↑functional requirements and ↑quality requirements.
Multiple occurrence of the same information or resource.
The improvement of the internal ↑quality of source code, particularly the structure of the code, without changing its observable behavior.
Synonym: Freigabe
A ↑configuration that has been released for installation and use by ↑customers.
Synonym: Anforderungsanalytiker, Anforderungsingenieur
A person who – in collaboration with ↑stakeholders – elicits, documents, validates, and manages ↑requirements.
In most cases, requirements engineer is a ↑role and not a job title.
The systematic and disciplined approach to the ↑specification and management of ↑requirements with the goal of understanding the ↑stakeholders’ desires and needs and minimizing the risk of delivering a ↑system that does not meet these desires and needs.
Abbreviation: RE
Synonym: Durchsicht
An evaluation of a ↑work product by an individual or a group in order to find problems or suggest improvements.
Evaluation may be performed with respect to both contents and conformance.
A possible event that threatens the success of an endeavor.
A risk is typically assessed in terms of its probability and potential damage.
1. A part played by a person in a given context.
2. In ↑UML ↑class models : The parts played by the linked ↑objects in an ↑association .
Synonym: Kontrollfluss
The order in which a set of actions is executed.
A structured set of signs for expressing and communicating information.
Signs are any elements that are used for communication: spoken or written words or expressions, symbols, gestures, sounds, etc.
A template for the syntactic structure of a phrase that expresses an individual ↑requirement or a ↑user story in ↑natural language. ( ↑requirements template )
The capability of a ↑system to achieve an acceptable level of probability that the system, under defined conditions, will not reach a state in which human life, health, property, or the environment is endangered.
Safety ↑requirements may be stated as ↑quality requirements or in terms of ↑functional requirements.
1. In general: A description of a potential sequence of events that lead to a desired (or unwanted) result.
2. In RE: An ordered sequence of interactions between partners, in particular between a ↑system and external ↑actors . May be a concrete sequence (instance scenario) or a set of potential sequences (type scenario, ↑use case ).
The degree to which a ↑system protects its data and resources against unauthorized access or use and secures unobstructed access and use for its legitimate ↑users.
Security requirements may be stated as ↑quality requirements or in terms of ↑functional requirements.
The meaning of a sign or a set of signs in a ↑language .
Synonym: Dienst
The provision of some ↑functionality to a human or a ↑system by a provider (a system, organization, group or individual) that delivers value to the receiver.
Synonym: Pflichtenheft
A ↑requirements specification pertaining to a software ↑system .
Abbreviation: SRS
1. As a work product: A systematically represented description of the properties of an ↑item (a ↑system , a device, etc.) that satisfies given criteria.
2. As a process: the process of specifying ( ↑eliciting , documenting and ↑validating ) the properties of an ↑item .
A specification may be about required properties ( ↑requirements specification ) or implemented properties (e.g., a technical product specification).
A ↑technique that specifies test cases and ↑requirements for a ↑system by providing examples of how the system should behave.
An artificial ↑language that has been created for expressing ↑specifications .
Synonym: Erkundung
In agile development: A task aimed at gaining insight or gathering information, rather than at producing a ↑product ↑increment .
An ↑iteration in ↑agile development, particularly when using ↑Scrum.
Synonym: Sprint-Auftragsbestand
A set of ↑product backlog items that have been selected to be implemented in the current ↑sprint .
Synonym: Interesseneigner
A person or organization who influences a ↑system’s ↑requirements or who is impacted by that system.
Influence can also be indirect. For example, some stakeholders may have to follow instructions issued by their managers or organizations.
Synonym: Interesseneigneranforderung
A ↑requirement expressing a ↑stakeholder desire or need.
Stakeholder requirements are typically written by stakeholders and express their desires and needs from their perspective.
A ↑state machine having states that are hierarchically and/or orthogonally decomposed.
Synonym: Story-Landschaft
A two-dimensional arrangement of ↑user stories .
A story map helps understand the ↑functionality of a ↑system , identify gaps and plan releases.
A series of sketches or pictures that visualize the execution of a ↑scenario .
An approach for specifying the ↑functionality of a system based on a hierarchy of ↑data flow diagrams. Data flows as well as persistent data are defined in a data dictionary. A ↑context diagram models the sources of incoming and the destinations of outgoing ↑data flows.
A word having the same meaning as another word.
The rules for constructing structured signs in a ↑language .
1. In general: A principle for ordering and structuring.
2. In engineering: A coherent, delimitable set of elements that – by coordinated action – achieve some purpose.
1. A system may comprise other systems or ↑components as sub-systems.
2. The purposes achieved by a system may be delivered by
- deploying the system at the place(s) where it is used,
- selling/providing the system as a ↑product to its ↑users,
- having providers who offer the system’s capabilities as ↑services to users.
3. Systems containing both software and physical ↑components are called cyber-physical systems.
4. Systems spanning software, hardware, people and organizational aspects are called socio-technical systems.
Important: In all definitions referring to system in this glossary, system is an umbrella term which includes
- ↑products provided to customers,
- ↑services made available to customers,
- other work products such as devices, procedures or tools that help people or organizations achieve some goal,
- system ↑components or ↑compositions of systems.
1. The system boundary delimits the system as it shall be after its implementation and deployment.
2. At the system boundary, the external interfaces between a ↑system and its ↑context have to be defined.
3. The system boundary frequently coincides with the ↑scope of a ↑system (which denotes the range of things that can be shaped and designed). However, this is not always the case: there may be components within the system boundary that have to be re-used as they are (i.e., cannot be shaped nor designed), while in the system context there may be things that can be re-designed when the system is developed (which means that they are in scope).
The part of a ↑system’s environment that is relevant for the definition as well as the understanding of the ↑requirements of a ↑system to be developed.
A ↑requirement pertaining to a ↑system .
Synonym: Pflichtenheft
A ↑requirements specification pertaining to a ↑system .
A system requirements specification is frequently considered to be a synonym for ↑requirements specification.
Abbreviation: SyRS
An excerpt from a ↑work product , containing only those parts one is currently interested in.
A view can abstract or aggregate parts of the work product.
Something which is formal to some extent, but not completely.
A ↑work product is called semi-formal if it contains formal parts, but isn’t formalized totally. Typically, a semi-formal work product has a defined ↑syntax , while the ↑semantics is partially defined only.
A documented set of coherent actions for accomplishing a ↑task or achieving an objective.
In agile development: A collection of related ↑user stories .
The range of things that can be shaped and designed when developing a ↑system .
Abbreviation for Unified Modeling Language, a standardized language for modeling problems or solutions.
A set of possible interactions between external ↑actors and a ↑system that provide a benefit for the actor(s) involved.
Use cases specify a system from a user’s (or other external actor’s) perspective: every use case describes some ↑functionality that the system must provide for the actors involved in the use case.
A diagram type in UML that models the ↑actors and the ↑use cases of a ↑system .
The boundary between the actors and the use cases constitutes the ↑system boundary.
Synonym: Anwendungsfallmodell
A ↑model consisting of a set of ↑use cases , typically together with a ↑use case diagram.
A description of a need from a ↑user’s perspective together with the expected benefit when this need is satisfied.
1. User stories are typically written in ↑natural language using a ↑phrase template and are accompanied by ↑acceptance criteria .
2. In ↑agile development, user stories are the main means for communicating needs between a ↑product owner and the development team.
The degree to which the fulfillment of a ↑requirement by an implemented ↑system can be verified.
Such ↑verification can be performed, for example by defining ↑acceptance test cases, measurements or ↑inspection procedures.
The way in which a ↑system reacts to stimuli, changes its state and produces observable results.
Stimuli may be events or changes of conditions. Their origin may be external or system-internal.
A ↑model describing the ↑behavior of a ↑system , e.g., by a ↑state machine.
1. For a single ↑requirement : The degree to which the specification of a requirement is self-contained.
2. For a ↑work product covering multiple requirements: The degree to which the work product contains all known requirements that are relevant in the scope of this work product.
1. In general: The ability to establish explicit relationships between related ↑work products or ↑items within work products.
2. In RE: The ability to trace a ↑requirement
(a) back to its origins,
(b) forward to its implementation in design and code and its associated tests,
(c) to requirements it depends on (and vice-versa).
The degree to which an ↑item is comprehensible to its intended users.
Typical items are: a ↑system , a ↑work product , or a part thereof.
The ↑process of confirming that an ↑item (a ↑system , a ↑work product or a part thereof) matches its ↑stakeholders’ needs.
In RE, validation is the process of confirming that the documented ↑requirements match their ↑stakeholders’ needs; in other words: whether the right requirements have been specified.
1. The degree to which a ↑system can be changed or customized.
2. In product lines: The ↑features that can differ among the members of the ↑product line .
One of the possible forms that an ↑item (e.g., a ↑requirement ) may have.
A point in a ↑product line where an element of the product line (typically a variable or a ↑feature ) can be chosen from a set of ↑variants .
The process of confirming that an ↑item (a system, a work product, or a part thereof) fulfills its ↑specification .
Requirements verification is the process of confirming that the ↑requirements have been documented properly and satisfy the ↑quality criteria for requirements; in other words, whether the requirements have been specified right.
An occurrence of an ↑item which exists in multiple, time-ordered occurrences where each occurrence has been created by modifying one of its previous occurrences.
Synonym: Pflegbarkeit
The ease with which a ↑system can be modified by the intended maintainers.
Maintainability may be stated as a ↑quality requirement .
In RE, tools support ↑requirements management as well as modeling, documenting, and validating ↑requirements.
A ↑review in which the author of a ↑work product leads the reviewers systematically through the work product and the reviewers ask questions and make comments about possible issues.
Synonym: Drahtmodell (Im RE-Kontext sinngemäß oft besser: Papier-und-Bleistift Modell)
A low-fidelity ↑prototype built with simple materials that primarily serves for discussing and validating requirements, design ideas or user interface concepts.
When prototyping digital systems, wireframes are typically built with paper. Such prototypes are also called paper prototypes.
A line of ↑configurations or ↑work product ↑versions that forks away from the main line (or from another branch) at some point in time.
A branch is created by making a copy of some configuration or work product version and making this copy the root of the branch. A branch may be merged with the main line or with another branch at some later point in time.
A desired state of affairs (that a ↑stakeholder wants to achieve).
Goals describe intentions of stakeholders. They may conflict with one another.
The degree to which a ↑system performs specified functions under specified conditions for a specified period of time.
Reliability may be stated as a ↑quality requirement .
A diagrammatic representation of a ↑state machine .
Synonym: Timebox
A fixed, non-extendable amount of time for completing a set of ↑tasks .