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The following basic issues should be addressed to detail all requirements that are not specified within the use-case model:

  • Functionality : What is the software supposed to do? This should include:
    • Validity checks on the inputs
    • General responses to abnormal situations, including: overflow, communication facilities, error handling and recovery
    • Effects of parameters
    • Relationship of outputs to inputs, including input/output sequences and formulas for input to output conversion
  • 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:
    • Types of information used by various functions
    • Frequency of use
    • Accessing capabilities
    • Data entities and their relationships
    • Integrity constraints
    • Data retention requirements
  • 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.?