Requirement Specifications
Documentation of a business need. Business units may provide high level requirements such as user stories. Requirement specifications provide everything required to design a product, service, tool, infrastructure component, process or procedure.The app must allow users to pause media that they are streaming.
Design Specifications
Descriptions of how requirements will be realized. A design provides everything required to implement requirements. The poster must be 24 inches by 36 inches at 900 DPI for printing.
Material Specifications
Specifications of physical, mechanical, electrical and chemical properties and tolerances. Included in the design of physical things such as products.Concrete for the building foundation must be certified as having a compressive strength of 6000 psi or greater.
Standard Specifications
Descriptions of industry or internal standards.The mobile app must conform to our brand guidelines [link to brand guidelines].
User Experience
Requirements that shape the user experience such as response time.The users must be able to reach all configuration options within one click of every screen.
Integration Specifications
Detailing how things will work together such as a software API for system integration.The mobile app must retrieve the billing information from the billing API.
Test Specifications
Describing how to test a product, service, process, infrastructure component, tool, machine or environment. This includes specifications for functional testing, non-functional testing, user acceptance testing and quality control.A performance test will simulate 1,000 concurrent users and execute 500 transactions per second. This will be benchmarked to confirm conformance with our performance standards [link to standards].
Performance Specifications
Specifications of target operating characteristics such as the availability of a service.The system must achieve 99.98% uptime on a monthly basis.
Quality Specifications
Definitions of quality that are used for purposes such as design, testing and quality control. Quality can include both tangible elements such as the size of an apple and intangible elements such as its taste.The cakes have a shelf life of 36 hours and must not be sold beyond this expiration.
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Definition | A requirement or procedure that is detailed enough to implement or action. | |
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