The document discusses software requirement analysis for a hotel management system using UML. It describes creating requirement artifacts like use case models, class diagrams, sequence diagrams and activity diagrams. The use case model identifies key actors and elaborates use case scenarios for room reservation, room service, telephone service and billing. The document prioritizes top use cases and provides detailed use case specifications for making a reservation, corporate reservation and group reservation.
The document discusses key aspects of developing a software requirements specification (SRS) document. It notes that the SRS serves as a contract between developers and customers, detailing functional and non-functional requirements without specifying solutions. An effective SRS is unambiguous, complete, verifiable, consistent, modifiable, traceable and usable for subsequent development and maintenance phases. The document provides examples of both good and bad SRS qualities.
The document discusses requirements analysis, which involves understanding customer needs and expectations for a proposed system. Requirements analysis is necessary to ensure projects align with business goals and specifications. The requirements analysis process includes identifying system boundaries, customers, eliciting requirements through stakeholder interviews, analyzing requirements, documenting requirements in a specification, and managing evolving requirements. An effective software requirements specification establishes agreement between customers and developers on system functionality.
Srs document for identity based secure distributed data storage schemesSahithi Naraparaju
This document provides a software requirements specification for an identity based secure distributed data storage scheme. It includes sections on introduction, overall description, system features, external interface requirements, and other non-functional requirements. The overall description provides an overview of the two proposed schemes - one that is secure against chosen plaintext attacks and another that is secure against chosen ciphertext attacks. It describes the user classes, operating environment, and design constraints. The system features section outlines the four main modules - data owner, proxy server, receiver, and data storage.
This document discusses virtual machines and their implementation. It begins with an overview of virtual machines, including the key components of a host, virtual machine manager/hypervisor, and guest. It then covers different system models and types of virtual machine managers from hardware-based to software-based. The document discusses the history, benefits, and building blocks of virtual machines like trap-and-emulate and binary translation techniques. It also covers hardware assistance for virtualization and the lifecycle of virtual machines.
This document outlines the project requirements for developing an online hotel booking system called HMS. It includes an abstract, introduction, functional requirements, system requirements including hardware and software specifications, entity relationship diagram, data flow diagram, screen shots, test cases, future scope, conclusion, and references. The system will allow users to search hotel details, register, login, view details and documents. It will be developed using technologies like PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL database. Various testing strategies like unit testing, white box testing, black box testing and system testing are proposed.
This document describes an online hotel booking system. The system allows users to check availability, book rooms, and manage reservations online through a website. It has two main modules: an administrator module that can manage customer and room details and update room status, and a user module that allows users to check availability, fill out reservation forms, and receive reservation confirmations. The system was developed using ASP.NET for the front end, SQL Server 2008 for the database, and C# and HTML/CSS for programming. Entity relationship diagrams and data flow diagrams are also included to show the database and system design.
1. Requirements analysis identifies customer needs, evaluates feasibility, and establishes system definitions and specifications. It bridges the gap between requirements engineering and system design.
2. Requirements analysis has several phases including problem recognition, evaluation and synthesis of possible solutions, help modeling, and writing definitions and specifications. It also considers management questions around effort, roles, challenges, and costs.
3. Requirements analysis determines functional requirements describing system behavior and inputs/outputs, as well as non-functional requirements around performance, interfaces, and user factors. It also validates that requirements are correct, consistent, complete, and testable.
The document discusses software requirements and specifications. It explains that requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer requirements for a system. Requirements can range from high-level abstract statements to detailed functional specifications. Both types of statements may be called requirements. The document also discusses different types of requirements like user requirements, system requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements. It provides examples and explanations of each. The structure and intended users of a requirements document are also covered.
The document discusses key aspects of developing a software requirements specification (SRS) document. It notes that the SRS serves as a contract between developers and customers, detailing functional and non-functional requirements without specifying solutions. An effective SRS is unambiguous, complete, verifiable, consistent, modifiable, traceable and usable for subsequent development and maintenance phases. The document provides examples of both good and bad SRS qualities.
The document discusses requirements analysis, which involves understanding customer needs and expectations for a proposed system. Requirements analysis is necessary to ensure projects align with business goals and specifications. The requirements analysis process includes identifying system boundaries, customers, eliciting requirements through stakeholder interviews, analyzing requirements, documenting requirements in a specification, and managing evolving requirements. An effective software requirements specification establishes agreement between customers and developers on system functionality.
Srs document for identity based secure distributed data storage schemesSahithi Naraparaju
This document provides a software requirements specification for an identity based secure distributed data storage scheme. It includes sections on introduction, overall description, system features, external interface requirements, and other non-functional requirements. The overall description provides an overview of the two proposed schemes - one that is secure against chosen plaintext attacks and another that is secure against chosen ciphertext attacks. It describes the user classes, operating environment, and design constraints. The system features section outlines the four main modules - data owner, proxy server, receiver, and data storage.
This document discusses virtual machines and their implementation. It begins with an overview of virtual machines, including the key components of a host, virtual machine manager/hypervisor, and guest. It then covers different system models and types of virtual machine managers from hardware-based to software-based. The document discusses the history, benefits, and building blocks of virtual machines like trap-and-emulate and binary translation techniques. It also covers hardware assistance for virtualization and the lifecycle of virtual machines.
This document outlines the project requirements for developing an online hotel booking system called HMS. It includes an abstract, introduction, functional requirements, system requirements including hardware and software specifications, entity relationship diagram, data flow diagram, screen shots, test cases, future scope, conclusion, and references. The system will allow users to search hotel details, register, login, view details and documents. It will be developed using technologies like PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and MySQL database. Various testing strategies like unit testing, white box testing, black box testing and system testing are proposed.
This document describes an online hotel booking system. The system allows users to check availability, book rooms, and manage reservations online through a website. It has two main modules: an administrator module that can manage customer and room details and update room status, and a user module that allows users to check availability, fill out reservation forms, and receive reservation confirmations. The system was developed using ASP.NET for the front end, SQL Server 2008 for the database, and C# and HTML/CSS for programming. Entity relationship diagrams and data flow diagrams are also included to show the database and system design.
1. Requirements analysis identifies customer needs, evaluates feasibility, and establishes system definitions and specifications. It bridges the gap between requirements engineering and system design.
2. Requirements analysis has several phases including problem recognition, evaluation and synthesis of possible solutions, help modeling, and writing definitions and specifications. It also considers management questions around effort, roles, challenges, and costs.
3. Requirements analysis determines functional requirements describing system behavior and inputs/outputs, as well as non-functional requirements around performance, interfaces, and user factors. It also validates that requirements are correct, consistent, complete, and testable.
The document discusses software requirements and specifications. It explains that requirements engineering is the process of establishing customer requirements for a system. Requirements can range from high-level abstract statements to detailed functional specifications. Both types of statements may be called requirements. The document also discusses different types of requirements like user requirements, system requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements. It provides examples and explanations of each. The structure and intended users of a requirements document are also covered.
This document describes a hotel management system created for Dayal Hotel. It discusses the development process using an iterative waterfall model and object-oriented coding. The system was meant to automate key hotel operations like reservations, room management, inventory, and administration. It provides details on the hardware, software, database interfaces and features like user login, guest management, and payment processing. Performance requirements, assumptions, and entity relationship diagrams are also included. In conclusion, it states that hotel management systems provide advantages of modernization and make management work easier through automated reports.
The document discusses elements that should be included in development and quality plans for software projects. It provides details on what should be covered in each plan, including deliverables, milestones, risks, resources, and testing. The development plan should define project scope, schedule, roles and tasks, while the quality plan outlines goals, reviews, tests and configuration management. Both plans are major elements for meeting standards like ISO29110 and CMMI. The document uses examples to illustrate how elements in each plan can be specified, such as deliverables tables, review activities, and test cases.
The document discusses various types of testing used in object-oriented software development including requirement testing, analysis testing, design testing, code testing, integration testing, unit testing, user testing, and system testing. It provides details on each type of testing such as the purpose, techniques, and processes involved. Scenario based testing and fault based testing are also summarized in the document.
The document provides a software requirements specification (SRS) for a library management system. It includes sections on the purpose and scope of the system, user requirements, system functions, and design constraints. The system will allow librarians to manage the library catalog and user accounts, and allow users to search for books, view their accounts, and borrow books. It will be a web-based system compatible with major browsers that integrates with a Microsoft SQL database. Non-functional requirements like security, performance and error handling are also addressed.
This document provides a template and guidelines for creating a Software Requirements Specification (SRS). It includes sections for an introduction, general description, specific requirements, and appendix. The specific requirements section breaks down high-level functional requirements into detailed child requirements and includes examples of formatting for non-functional and design requirements. Guidelines are provided on attributes of a good SRS such as requirements being correct, necessary, unambiguous and verifiable.
The systematic use of proven principles, techniques ,languages and tools for the cost-effective analysis ,documentation and on-going evolution of user needs and the external behavior of a system to satisfy those user needs.
Requirement Elicitation
Facilitated Application Specification Technique(FAST)
Quality Function Deployment
USE-CASES
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- Functional and non-functional requirements and how they differ
- The structure and purpose of a software requirements specification document
- Methods for specifying requirements such as using natural language, structured specifications, and tables
- Challenges in writing requirements clearly and avoiding ambiguity or mixing of requirement types
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
Software Requirement Specification is a most important topic asked in exams and for presentations in B.Tech comp. engg. This presentation contains all the important topic and deep knowledge of SRS.It includes definition, scope, role, how to write srs, template and template description. It tells how to build SRS and also includes examples for ease.
This document outlines various artifact sets produced during the software engineering process, including requirement, design, implementation, deployment, test, and management artifacts. It discusses the artifacts in each set and how they evolve over the software lifecycle. The key artifact sets are the requirement set containing the engineering context, the design set representing different abstraction levels, the implementation set with source code, and the deployment set for delivering the software to users. Test artifacts must also be developed concurrently and documented similarly. Management artifacts include documents for planning, tracking status and releases, and defining the development environment.
This document outlines the key steps in requirement analysis and specification for developing a technical solution:
1) Analyze business requirements by gathering requirements, scope, security, performance, maintainability, availability, and integration needs.
2) Define the technical architecture by identifying appropriate solution types, technologies, and data storage architecture.
3) Develop the conceptual and logical design, including constructing conceptual models, applying modular design principles, and incorporating business rules.
4) Derive the physical design and finalize the product while ensuring requirements for performance, maintainability, security, and other factors are met.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering topics including:
1. What software engineering is, its importance, and the software development lifecycle activities it encompasses.
2. The many different types of software systems that exist and how software engineering approaches vary depending on the application.
3. Key fundamentals of software engineering that apply universally, including managing development processes, dependability, and reusing existing software components.
The document describes an incremental process model for software development. It is divided into sections that define the incremental process model, when it is used, pros, and cons. The incremental process model involves dividing the entire project into smaller increments, with each increment going through requirements analysis, design, coding, and testing. This allows working software to be developed quickly and added to over time until the full system is complete. The approach is useful when requirements are well understood but some details may change, or when early delivery to market is needed. Benefits include faster delivery and flexibility, while drawbacks include needing good upfront planning and potential higher total costs than traditional models.
Command center processing and display system replacement (ccpds-r) - Case StudyKuppusamy P
This document describes a case study of the Command Center Processing and Display System - Replacement (CCPDS-R) project led by TRW Space and Defense for the U.S. Air Force. The CCPDS-R was developed to replace the primary missile warning system at Cheyenne Mountain and included a 48-month development schedule using Ada. Key aspects of the CCPDS-R project included: 1) Developing a common subsystem with six software components, 2) Using an incremental design and development approach split into builds, and 3) Conducting demonstrations at major milestones to assess requirements and architectural risks. The project was completed on time and within budget to customer satisfaction.
This document discusses software architecture from both a management and technical perspective. From a management perspective, it defines an architecture as the design concept, an architecture baseline as tangible artifacts that satisfy stakeholders, and an architecture description as a human-readable representation of the design. It also notes that mature processes, clear requirements, and a demonstrable architecture are important for predictable project planning. Technically, it describes Philippe Kruchten's model of software architecture, which includes use case, design, process, component, and deployment views that model different aspects of realizing a system's design.
this is the Library Management System work breakdown structure hierarchy made in ms word just see and please give your review that is it ok or still have a need to work on it...it is made on beginner level not expert....
This document provides a software requirements specification for the Amazing Lunch Indicator application. It includes an introduction describing the purpose, scope, definitions, and references. The overall description explains the product perspective and functions, user characteristics, constraints, assumptions, and requirements apportioning. The specific requirements section details the external interfaces, functional requirements for three user classes (mobile users, restaurant owners, and administrators), performance requirements, design constraints, and software attributes. The document concludes with a prioritization and release plan.
The document discusses key concepts in software design including:
- The main activities in software design are data design, architectural design, procedural design, and sometimes interface design. Preliminary design transforms requirements into architecture while detail design refines the architecture.
- Data design develops data structures to represent information from analysis. Architectural design defines program structure and interfaces. Procedural design represents structural components procedurally using notations like flowcharts.
- Other concepts discussed include modularity, abstraction, software architecture, control hierarchy, data structures, and information hiding. Modular design, abstraction and information hiding help manage complexity. Software architecture and control hierarchy define program organization.
This document discusses requirements validation and techniques for validating requirements. It defines requirements validation as checking that requirements define the system the customer wants. Validation is important because fixing requirements errors later is very costly. The document describes various checks that can be performed on requirements like validity, consistency, completeness, and verifiability. It also outlines techniques for validation like requirements reviews, prototyping, and test-case generation. Finally, it notes that validating requirements is difficult and some problems may still be found after validation.
This S.R.S deals with the basic's of hotel management system.It will show different features with different functionalities.Data Flow diagram is also mentioned With 0 and 1 Level diagram.
Budget reductions and accountability finalTim Washington
Do budget cuts drive accountability and force decision makers to make better and more efficient budgetary decisions? This question is not only an issue for state and local governments, but of corporations as well. In many companies, there is downward pressure to reduce information technology (IT) spending, even slashing budgets in order to “get things under control.” There were big IT layoffs at Boeing in 2010, yet IT organizations are still expected to perform at pre-2010 levels. Based upon current literature and examples from the Boeing company and the City of Bellevue, the outstanding characteristic is that the more proactive a management team is to develop good governance processes, the quicker it can respond with better decisions when budget cuts do occur. This paper will address the needs and benefits of good governance, as well as the leadership required to be proactive in order to realize the benefits of a solid governance framework.
This document provides an overview of action research, including its history, key characteristics, types, design process, and role of reflection. Action research began with Kurt Lewin in the 1940s and aims to solve practical problems through participatory and cyclical research. It positions itself within the critical theoretical research paradigm as research done "with" rather than "on" or "for" people. The presentation reviews action research methodology, emphasizing its practical and collaborative nature. It also addresses validity, ethics, and the importance of reflection in the action research process.
This document describes a hotel management system created for Dayal Hotel. It discusses the development process using an iterative waterfall model and object-oriented coding. The system was meant to automate key hotel operations like reservations, room management, inventory, and administration. It provides details on the hardware, software, database interfaces and features like user login, guest management, and payment processing. Performance requirements, assumptions, and entity relationship diagrams are also included. In conclusion, it states that hotel management systems provide advantages of modernization and make management work easier through automated reports.
The document discusses elements that should be included in development and quality plans for software projects. It provides details on what should be covered in each plan, including deliverables, milestones, risks, resources, and testing. The development plan should define project scope, schedule, roles and tasks, while the quality plan outlines goals, reviews, tests and configuration management. Both plans are major elements for meeting standards like ISO29110 and CMMI. The document uses examples to illustrate how elements in each plan can be specified, such as deliverables tables, review activities, and test cases.
The document discusses various types of testing used in object-oriented software development including requirement testing, analysis testing, design testing, code testing, integration testing, unit testing, user testing, and system testing. It provides details on each type of testing such as the purpose, techniques, and processes involved. Scenario based testing and fault based testing are also summarized in the document.
The document provides a software requirements specification (SRS) for a library management system. It includes sections on the purpose and scope of the system, user requirements, system functions, and design constraints. The system will allow librarians to manage the library catalog and user accounts, and allow users to search for books, view their accounts, and borrow books. It will be a web-based system compatible with major browsers that integrates with a Microsoft SQL database. Non-functional requirements like security, performance and error handling are also addressed.
This document provides a template and guidelines for creating a Software Requirements Specification (SRS). It includes sections for an introduction, general description, specific requirements, and appendix. The specific requirements section breaks down high-level functional requirements into detailed child requirements and includes examples of formatting for non-functional and design requirements. Guidelines are provided on attributes of a good SRS such as requirements being correct, necessary, unambiguous and verifiable.
The systematic use of proven principles, techniques ,languages and tools for the cost-effective analysis ,documentation and on-going evolution of user needs and the external behavior of a system to satisfy those user needs.
Requirement Elicitation
Facilitated Application Specification Technique(FAST)
Quality Function Deployment
USE-CASES
The document discusses requirements engineering and summarizes key topics covered in Chapter 4, including:
- Functional and non-functional requirements and how they differ
- The structure and purpose of a software requirements specification document
- Methods for specifying requirements such as using natural language, structured specifications, and tables
- Challenges in writing requirements clearly and avoiding ambiguity or mixing of requirement types
This document discusses software processes and models. It covers the following key points:
1. Software processes involve activities like specification, design, implementation, validation and evolution to develop software systems. Common process models include waterfall, incremental development and reuse-oriented development.
2. Processes need to cope with inevitable changes. This can involve prototyping to avoid rework or using incremental development and delivery to more easily accommodate changes.
3. The Rational Unified Process is a modern process model with phases for inception, elaboration, construction and transition. It advocates iterative development and managing requirements and quality.
Software Requirement Specification is a most important topic asked in exams and for presentations in B.Tech comp. engg. This presentation contains all the important topic and deep knowledge of SRS.It includes definition, scope, role, how to write srs, template and template description. It tells how to build SRS and also includes examples for ease.
This document outlines various artifact sets produced during the software engineering process, including requirement, design, implementation, deployment, test, and management artifacts. It discusses the artifacts in each set and how they evolve over the software lifecycle. The key artifact sets are the requirement set containing the engineering context, the design set representing different abstraction levels, the implementation set with source code, and the deployment set for delivering the software to users. Test artifacts must also be developed concurrently and documented similarly. Management artifacts include documents for planning, tracking status and releases, and defining the development environment.
This document outlines the key steps in requirement analysis and specification for developing a technical solution:
1) Analyze business requirements by gathering requirements, scope, security, performance, maintainability, availability, and integration needs.
2) Define the technical architecture by identifying appropriate solution types, technologies, and data storage architecture.
3) Develop the conceptual and logical design, including constructing conceptual models, applying modular design principles, and incorporating business rules.
4) Derive the physical design and finalize the product while ensuring requirements for performance, maintainability, security, and other factors are met.
This document provides an introduction to software engineering topics including:
1. What software engineering is, its importance, and the software development lifecycle activities it encompasses.
2. The many different types of software systems that exist and how software engineering approaches vary depending on the application.
3. Key fundamentals of software engineering that apply universally, including managing development processes, dependability, and reusing existing software components.
The document describes an incremental process model for software development. It is divided into sections that define the incremental process model, when it is used, pros, and cons. The incremental process model involves dividing the entire project into smaller increments, with each increment going through requirements analysis, design, coding, and testing. This allows working software to be developed quickly and added to over time until the full system is complete. The approach is useful when requirements are well understood but some details may change, or when early delivery to market is needed. Benefits include faster delivery and flexibility, while drawbacks include needing good upfront planning and potential higher total costs than traditional models.
Command center processing and display system replacement (ccpds-r) - Case StudyKuppusamy P
This document describes a case study of the Command Center Processing and Display System - Replacement (CCPDS-R) project led by TRW Space and Defense for the U.S. Air Force. The CCPDS-R was developed to replace the primary missile warning system at Cheyenne Mountain and included a 48-month development schedule using Ada. Key aspects of the CCPDS-R project included: 1) Developing a common subsystem with six software components, 2) Using an incremental design and development approach split into builds, and 3) Conducting demonstrations at major milestones to assess requirements and architectural risks. The project was completed on time and within budget to customer satisfaction.
This document discusses software architecture from both a management and technical perspective. From a management perspective, it defines an architecture as the design concept, an architecture baseline as tangible artifacts that satisfy stakeholders, and an architecture description as a human-readable representation of the design. It also notes that mature processes, clear requirements, and a demonstrable architecture are important for predictable project planning. Technically, it describes Philippe Kruchten's model of software architecture, which includes use case, design, process, component, and deployment views that model different aspects of realizing a system's design.
this is the Library Management System work breakdown structure hierarchy made in ms word just see and please give your review that is it ok or still have a need to work on it...it is made on beginner level not expert....
This document provides a software requirements specification for the Amazing Lunch Indicator application. It includes an introduction describing the purpose, scope, definitions, and references. The overall description explains the product perspective and functions, user characteristics, constraints, assumptions, and requirements apportioning. The specific requirements section details the external interfaces, functional requirements for three user classes (mobile users, restaurant owners, and administrators), performance requirements, design constraints, and software attributes. The document concludes with a prioritization and release plan.
The document discusses key concepts in software design including:
- The main activities in software design are data design, architectural design, procedural design, and sometimes interface design. Preliminary design transforms requirements into architecture while detail design refines the architecture.
- Data design develops data structures to represent information from analysis. Architectural design defines program structure and interfaces. Procedural design represents structural components procedurally using notations like flowcharts.
- Other concepts discussed include modularity, abstraction, software architecture, control hierarchy, data structures, and information hiding. Modular design, abstraction and information hiding help manage complexity. Software architecture and control hierarchy define program organization.
This document discusses requirements validation and techniques for validating requirements. It defines requirements validation as checking that requirements define the system the customer wants. Validation is important because fixing requirements errors later is very costly. The document describes various checks that can be performed on requirements like validity, consistency, completeness, and verifiability. It also outlines techniques for validation like requirements reviews, prototyping, and test-case generation. Finally, it notes that validating requirements is difficult and some problems may still be found after validation.
This S.R.S deals with the basic's of hotel management system.It will show different features with different functionalities.Data Flow diagram is also mentioned With 0 and 1 Level diagram.
Budget reductions and accountability finalTim Washington
Do budget cuts drive accountability and force decision makers to make better and more efficient budgetary decisions? This question is not only an issue for state and local governments, but of corporations as well. In many companies, there is downward pressure to reduce information technology (IT) spending, even slashing budgets in order to “get things under control.” There were big IT layoffs at Boeing in 2010, yet IT organizations are still expected to perform at pre-2010 levels. Based upon current literature and examples from the Boeing company and the City of Bellevue, the outstanding characteristic is that the more proactive a management team is to develop good governance processes, the quicker it can respond with better decisions when budget cuts do occur. This paper will address the needs and benefits of good governance, as well as the leadership required to be proactive in order to realize the benefits of a solid governance framework.
This document provides an overview of action research, including its history, key characteristics, types, design process, and role of reflection. Action research began with Kurt Lewin in the 1940s and aims to solve practical problems through participatory and cyclical research. It positions itself within the critical theoretical research paradigm as research done "with" rather than "on" or "for" people. The presentation reviews action research methodology, emphasizing its practical and collaborative nature. It also addresses validity, ethics, and the importance of reflection in the action research process.
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This document provides an overview of task-based language learning (TBLL) as a methodology. It describes TBLL as focusing on completing real-world tasks through a series of activities and preparation steps. This allows learners to use language in an authentic context. The document outlines the key stages of TBLL - pre-task, task preparation, task realization, and post-task. It also discusses factors to consider when implementing TBLL, such as learners' profiles, language abilities, and learning styles.
Delegation involves assigning tasks and responsibilities to subordinates while maintaining overall accountability. It allows managers to overcome limitations and accomplish more. There are three types of delegation - downward, upward, and sidewise. Successful delegation requires clear communication of expectations, authority, and responsibilities. While it can improve efficiency and development, some managers resist delegating due to control issues, lack of trust, or preference to do tasks themselves. Centralization and decentralization refer to how authority is distributed within an organization.
A group of four students (Travis Dodge, Miguel Lara, Sarah Hamilton, Nichole Buck) and I created this presentation for a leadership course in Clark University's Graduate School of Management. The presentation topic is organizational skills and is divided into three major parts 1.) practical/hands on organizational skills 2.) time management 3.) bridging the gap between individual organization and managerial organization. Enjoy!
The document defines demonstration as a teaching method that involves showing concepts through examples or experiments to help students better understand and conceptualize material. Studies show that classroom demonstrations, especially those related to chemistry, can improve how students connect theories to practice. Demonstrations are most effective when accompanied by verbal explanations. To be successful, demonstrations should establish rapport, avoid assuming prior knowledge, and highlight key points. Proper planning, preparation of materials, rehearsal, and evaluation are important for effective demonstrations.
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The document discusses performance appraisal, which is a method for evaluating an employee's performance in areas such as quality, quantity, cost and time. It outlines several aims of performance appraisal including providing feedback to employees, identifying training needs, and forming the basis for personnel decisions. The document also discusses different performance appraisal methods such as management by objectives and 360 degree feedback, which involves collecting feedback from subordinates, peers and managers. It notes debates around performance appraisal and both benefits and challenges to implementing 360 degree feedback in organizations.
The document discusses reward and recognition programs in organizations. It provides an overview of common elements of total rewards packages and discusses the purpose and benefits of recognition programs. Recognition programs are found to be effective motivators that help with retention, performance, and creating a positive work culture. The document also outlines best practices for designing successful recognition programs, including management support, employee involvement, tailoring rewards, and clear communication.
This document provides an overview of setting up a Project Management Office (PMO). It discusses what a PMO is, why organizations need them, and the key components and structures of an effective PMO. A PMO sets standards, provides governance, and establishes processes to manage projects consistently. It aims to deliver projects efficiently and successfully while improving reporting, resource management, and alignment with organizational strategy. The document outlines the functional, structural, and disciplinary facets of a PMO and how they work interdependently. It also promotes accessing the full guide online for more details on PMO components, maturity levels, setup, and considerations.
Motivation refers to factors that arouse, direct, and sustain human behavior. There are several theories of motivation, including drive theory which proposes that internal drives or needs push people towards goals, and incentive theory which suggests that external rewards or goals pull people to act. Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory also explains motivation and proposes that people are motivated to fulfill lower level basic needs before pursuing higher level growth needs. Managers can create a motivating work climate by setting clear expectations, being fair and consistent, developing teamwork, recognizing contributions, allowing autonomy and growth, and addressing individual needs and values.
The document discusses the unified process and use case diagrams in software development. It introduces the unified process which is an iterative and evolutionary software development methodology consisting of inception, elaboration, construction, and transition phases. The document also covers use cases, actors, use case diagrams, and how use cases influence analysis, design, implementation, project management, and testing in object-oriented software development.
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This UML (Unified Markup Language) contains 6 Units and each Unit contains 35 slides in it.
Contents…
• Object-oriented modeling
• Origin and evolution of UML
• Architecture of UML
• User View
o Actor
o Use Cases
• Identify the behavior of a class
• Identify the attributes of a class
• Create a Class diagram
• Create an Object diagram
• Identify the dynamic and static aspects of a system
• Draw collaboration diagrams
• Draw sequence diagrams
• Draw statechart diagrams
• Understand activity diagrams
• Identify software components of a system
• Draw component diagrams
• Identify nodes in a system
• Draw deployment diagrams
This document contains the table of contents and details for developing a passport automation system as a mini project. It includes the problem statement, introduction describing the purpose and scope of the system. It also includes the system requirements and identifies the various UML diagrams that will be used to model the system including class, object, state, data flow, use case, activity, sequence, component and deployment diagrams.
Three types of systems that are used as case studies are embedded systems to control medical devices, information systems like medical records systems, and sensor-based data collection systems like wilderness weather stations. Software engineering techniques include prototypes, reuse-oriented processes, and testing processes. Architectural design is a critical link between overall system design and requirements and involves determining how a system should be organized at a high level.
UML (Unified Modeling Language) is a standard modeling language used to document and visualize the design of object-oriented software systems. It was developed in the 1990s to standardize the different object-oriented modeling notations that existed. UML is based on several influential object-oriented analysis and design methodologies. It includes diagrams for modeling a system's structural and behavioral elements, and has continued to evolve with refinements and expanded applicability. Use case diagrams are one type of UML diagram that are used to define system behaviors and goals from the perspective of different user types or external entities known as actors.
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This document provides an overview of a student group's online hotel management system project. It introduces the project topic and group members. It then describes the existing manual hotel management system and its limitations. The proposed system aims to automate the process and address the issues with the current system by developing a computerized system accessible online to customers and administrators. It outlines the scope, objectives and proposed solution involving centralizing records in a database and making the system available 24/7 online. It also discusses the methodology using SDLC, includes diagrams of the work breakdown structure, data flow and entity relationships.
Welcome to my series of articles on Unified Modeling Language. This is "Session 2 – Use Case UML" of the series. I have covered Use Case Scenario, Use Case Narrative and Use Case Model in this session.
Please view my other documents where I have covered each UML diagram with examples
This document is a dissertation submitted by Sehaj Kour Raina for the degree of Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering at Lovely Professional University. The dissertation describes developing a Hotel Management System with an entity relationship diagram, database schemas, normalization, and SQL implementation. It includes sections on the E-R diagram, entities and attributes, relationships, normalization to third normal form, and PL/SQL code for creating tables in the hotel database.
The document discusses requirements elicitation for software development. It describes the typical activities in a software lifecycle including requirements elicitation, analysis, design, implementation, and testing. It discusses techniques for eliciting requirements such as questionnaires, interviews, document analysis, task analysis, and scenarios. Scenario-based design focuses on concrete examples rather than abstract ideas. Non-functional requirements like usability, performance, and security are also important to define. Eliciting requirements is challenging due to understanding large complex systems and communication between stakeholders.
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The document discusses use case modeling and diagrams. It defines a use case as a sequence of actions a system performs that yields an observable result for an actor. Use case diagrams depict the interactions between actors and the services (use cases) provided by the system. They help identify the classes needed for the system and provide a starting point for requirements, analysis, design, testing, and documentation. The example models the use cases for a bank that offers savings, checking, fixed deposit accounts and ATM services.
The document discusses refining a system definition through use case modeling. It explains how to detail use cases by structuring the basic and alternative flows of events. Guidelines are provided for writing use case reports and flows of events to clearly communicate system behavior to various audiences like users, designers, and testers.
The document discusses developing a use case model for object oriented software modeling and design. It provides guidance on documenting use cases, including describing use case templates and formats. It also outlines steps for developing an initial use case model, including developing a problem statement, identifying actors and use cases, creating an initial use case diagram, and describing use cases briefly with initial descriptions.
The document discusses developing a use case model for an object oriented software system. It covers identifying actors and use cases, creating an initial use case diagram, describing use cases, identifying business classes, refining the use case model through structuring use cases, developing scenarios, and prioritizing use cases. The document provides templates and examples for documenting each step of use case modeling.
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2. Software Requirement Analysis using UML
Introduction
The document hopes to break a common myth that software analysis is a non-logical
process. We attempt to present the entire process as a series of logical steps which could
be followed to ensure customer satisfaction.
This document is based on the knowledge base that has been collected from various
sources. Most of the steps followed here are based on the RUP model.
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What are Requirement Artifacts?
Requirements artifacts are the diagrams/flowcharts/algorithms/documents that a software
designer creates as a result of the process of developing and managing software
requirements. Each artifact serves a particular purpose for understanding and
communicating either the user requirements or the software requirements. Each artifact
provides a view of the full set of requirements.
The set of UML artifacts (not necessarily every type of UML diagram BUT only a subset
of UML diagram-types that the designer deems necessary) ensures that these views do
not conflict with one another. The following figure illustrates the overall architecture of
the requirements artifacts:
Figure 1: Software Analysis Model
Each artifact in the above Software Analysis Model serves a particular purpose in final
goal of capturing the system requirements:
Use Case Model: The use case model consists of Actors, Use Case diagrams as well as
Use Case specifications. Actors are entities external to the system which are unaffected
by the current design process (but interact with the system in clearly documented ways).
The use-cases capture the high-level functionality of the system. The use case
specifications are the detailed description of how the actors interact with the system to
achieve a specific goal.
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Class Diagrams: The Class Diagrams (analysis classes) show the entities that need to
work together to ensure that our system realizes each use case specification. The Class
Diagrams contains the functional requirements of the software. Objects of each class
fulfill their responsibilities in collaboration with objects of the other classes in the model.
Sequence Diagrams: The Sequence Diagrams show how objects of classes in the Class
Diagram collaborate to realize a use case. Each use case specification is related to one or
more sequence diagrams
Activity Diagrams: Activity diagrams are similar to flow charts. We use activity
diagrams for (visually) capturing the dynamic behavior of a given part of our system.
State Diagrams: State transition diagrams can be used to describe the behavior of a
class, a use case, or a system. The key components of a state transition diagram are the
states, triggering events that cause a transition from one state to another or possibly back
to the same state, guards on those transitions, and actions the entity can perform during
the transitions.
Software Requirements Specification (SRS): The SRS is the final (all-inclusive)
artifact of the requirements development process. The SRS contains BOTH the
specification of the functional requirements for each class in the class diagram AND the
nonfunctional requirements. The SRS may also contain a specification of the interfaces to
the system.
We learn the entire process of software (requirement) analysis using an example. We
build up the various artifacts starting from a simple problem statement given below:
Problem Statement:
Implement a Hotel Management System wherein the customer can book one of the
following kinds of rooms:
Single
Double
Suite
The system takes care of the billing which includes the Room service/Std calls etc
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Use Case Model
The use case model captures the interaction of the system with other external entities. We
start by enlisting a rough draft of the scenarios in which the system will be exercised and
then go on to refine the same (for capturing more specific details).
The high-level overview of the system (given earlier) reveals the following use-case
scenarios:
1. Hotel Room reservation
2. Room Service (Food)
3. Telephone/Internet Service
4. Billing
We now try to refine the above use-case scenarios for capturing more details. We try to
make good use of the available use-case relationships i.e. extends, includes and
generalization (of both actors and use cases). Capturing such fine details helps in both
getting a broader view of the system as well as encouraging reuse.
Identifying the Actors & Elaborating the Use-case scenarios
From the above identified use case scenarios we can deduce the following four broad
categories of actors
1. Customer
2. (Hotel) Employee
3. (Hotel) Manager (responsible for booking/tariff selection etc)
4. Hotel Register (Customer details/Billing details/Room availability details)
Each of the above identified use case scenarios are then elaborated after taking
continuous feedback from the customer.
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(Incrementally) Iterative development model
This model is close to the iterative development model (as suggested by RUP). We first
sort the requirements (read as Use Cases) according to their:
1. Urgency (as decided by customer)
2. Complexity
3. Risk (as perceived by architect/developer)
We then prioritize the use cases by taking a weighted average of the above 3 priority
values (weights could be decided after discussion with customer/client).
For the Hotel Management system being considered here, we assume that the top 3 use
cases (highest priority) are:
1. Make Reservation
2. Make Corporate Reservation
3. Make Group Reservation
We now do a complete iteration of software analysis for each of these 3 requirements.
The other use cases are explored incrementally (in subsequent iterations).
Use Case Name: Make Reservation
Author (Date) of first Revision: Dhiraj Shetty (Feb 25th, 2009)
Precondition: Hotel Register is updated with latest info
Post-condition: Hotel Register updated to include current booking
Failed Post-condition: Hotel Register remains unaffected
Main Flow:
1. Customer gives itinerary (days of stay at hotel)
2. System searches for room details
3. System presents room types and tariffs
4. Customer selects room and confirms tariff
5. System records customer‟s name and address
6. Manager confirms booking on system
7. System generates confirmation receipt.
Alternate Flow: Tariff Negotiation
3.1. Customer asks for discount
3.2. Manager does DSS analysis (external to system) to decide feasibility of discount
Use Case Specification for “Make Reservation”
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Use Case Name: Make Corporate Reservation
Author (Date) of first Revision: Dhiraj Shetty (Feb 25th, 2009)
Precondition: Hotel Register is updated with latest info
Post-condition: Hotel Register updated to include current booking
Failed Post-condition: Hotel Register remains unaffected
Main Flow:
1. Customer gives itinerary (days of stay at hotel)
2. System searches for room details
3. System presents room types and special corporate tariffs
4. Customer selects room and confirms tariff
5. System records the name and address of both the customer as well as guest (customer‟s
client/employee)
6. Manager confirms booking on system
7. System generates confirmation receipt.
Alternate Flow: Tariff Negotiation
3.1. Customer asks for discount
3.2. Manager does DSS analysis (external to system) to decide feasibility of discount
Use Case Specification for “Corporate Reservation”
Use Case Name: Make Group Reservation
Author (Date) of first Revision: Dhiraj Shetty (Feb 25th, 2009)
Precondition: Hotel Register is updated with latest info
Post-condition: Hotel Register updated to include current booking
Failed Post-condition: Hotel Register remains unaffected
Main Flow:
1. Customer gives itinerary (days of stay at hotel)
2. System searches for room details
3. System presents room types and special group tariffs
4. Customer selects rooms and confirms tariff(s)
5. System records name and address for each customer in group
6. Manager confirms booking on system
7. System generates confirmation receipt.
Alternate Flow: Tariff Negotiation
3.1. Customer asks for discount
3.2. Manager does DSS analysis (external to system) to decide feasibility of discount
Use Case Specification for “Group Reservation”
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Identification of Analysis Classes:
Analysis classes are categorized into the following 3 kinds:
1. Boundary Classes (the Interface)
Behavior that involves communication with an actor
2. Control Classes (the Use Case flow of events)
Behavior specific to a use case or part of a very important flow of events
3. Entity Classes(Persistent Data)
Behavior that involves the data encapsulated within the abstraction
Boundary classes model the interaction between the system and its surroundings. As a
thumb rule we need one boundary class per „Actor‟-„Use Case‟ pair. They should be
modeled according to the type of boundary they represent. For e.g.:
Modeling a boundary with a human actor should stress more on how the interface
will be presented to the user.
Modeling a boundary with an external system should stress more on the
communication protocol.
Control classes coordinate the activities of other objects that implement the functionality
of a use case. However they may share a many-to-many relationship with use cases. The
design of control cases should be independent of change in surroundings. They should
also be independent of the internal structure of their corresponding entity classes. It‟s
always better to divide a given control class if:
1. Two different actors interact with the same control class in different ways
2. The control task performs more than one kind of task and each are equally
susceptible to change during the life time of the system.
Entity classes are used to hold and update information about an event, a person or some
real-life object. They are independent of the environment (the actors). Thus changing the
GUI or communication protocol (for communicating with external entities) should entail
changing only the boundary classes, not the entity and control classes.
Entity classes can be identified using the use case specifications. The first step in this
exercise is to identify all the nouns in the use case specification. These are the best hints
to the classes in the system. The verbs indicate the methods. The nouns which indicate
entities external to the system (for e.g. Actors) are to be skipped. Entity classes may also
come from the domain model (business entities).
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Boundary Classes identified are:
1. Manager-Reservation-behaviour
2. Customer-Reservation-behaviour
3. HotelRegister-Reservation-behaviour
Control Classes identified are:
1. MakeReservation-Controller
2. GroupReservation-Controller
3. CorporateReservation-Controller
Entity Classes identified are:
1. Customer-info
2. Room-info
3. Reservation-info
4. Group-reservation-info
5. Corporate-reservation-info
Distribute Responsibilities between the Analysis Classes
Responsibilities of an object for a given Analysis class are characterized as:
1. The actions the object can perform
2. The knowledge that the object maintains and provides to other objects
Analysis classes with only one responsibility are probably too simple, while those with a
dozen or more can potentially be split into several classes.
Responsibilities are determined by drawing Sequence Diagrams OR Collaboration
Diagrams for representing the use case flows. Collaboration diagrams do have a distinct
advantage over sequence diagrams in that they allow you to show more complex
branching as well as multiple concurrent flows of control. Sequence diagrams help in „top
to bottom‟ chronological ordering of messages but only allow us to show simple
branching.
We now draw interaction diagrams for every possible use case flow i.e. main flow and/or
alternate flow and/or exception flow. The messages that are passed to the objects (of
Analysis classes) automatically give us their responsibilities. Besides, some other
responsibilities may also be derived from the non-functional requirements.
While allocating responsibilities to entity classes it may be helpful to have a broader
overview of the entire system (rather than just the current subset of use cases). For e.g.
While designing the book reservation system for British Library (which has multiple
branches across India) it may be sensible for the BOOK entity to include methods
MOVE_LOCATION and GET_CURRENT_LOCATION.
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The remaining part of this document will focus on the analysis of only the above use case
flow. In practice however we analyze all the flows (that have been selected for the current
iteration) in parallel. This ensures that we come up with a more comprehensive analysis
for the classes involved.
The responsibilities of each analysis class are now identified using the incoming arrow to
its corresponding lifeline (in the sequence diagram analysis). For example, we can list the
responsibility of customer-reservation-behavior class as:
1. Provide an UI to capture customer‟s itinerary dates.
2. Provide an UI to query room availability.
3. Provide an UI to display available rooms (arranged by category/rates).
4. Provide an UI to take room reservation confirmation.
5. Provide an UI to display reservation-confirmation details.
6. Provide an UI for capturing customer‟s personal data.
Further the non-functional requirements may also affect the analysis either by:
1. Introducing new responsibilities OR
2. Affecting the descriptions of pre-identified responsibilities
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Define Attributes
Attributes are the information-holders of an analysis class. The name of the attribute
should clearly specify the information that the attribute holds. Optionally we could use a
short description for giving more details.
Attributes are usually:
1. Simple data types like string/integer etc
2. Uniquely owned by the object (to which it belongs) i.e. no sharing across objects
3. Have no real behavior other than providing its value.
It is always better to model a potential attribute as a separate analysis class in the
following conditions:
1. The information has a complex behavior.
2. The information is shared across objects OR
3. The information is passed “by reference” between two or more objects.
For example, the attributes of the customer-info class could be defined as:
Integer Customer_ID
String Name
String Address
String Contact_Number
Incase the data types identified are advanced features/types provided by certain languages
(like STL in C++) we should clearly document the expected behavior of the type. This
helps to keep the requirements independent of the implementation mechanism. It also
ensures that we do not force any choices on the designer/developer.
Establish Relationship between Analysis Classes (Class Diagrams)
The analysis classes in this model don‟t represent actual classes to be implemented in the
code; instead they represent conceptual entities that interact to represent the behavior of
the proposed software without thinking much about implementation issues like
persistence, performance or security. Besides, we do not apply any kind of design
patterns here. Design patterns like Strategy, Abstract Factory etc come into play during
the next stage of converting the analysis to a formal design.
We start with a quick overview of the kinds of class relationships:
1. Association: A relationship between classes that allows instances of those classes to
send messages to each other. For example: An "Employee” works in a “Company".
1a. Multiplicity: An example of this kind of association is many employees working at
the same company. In this case, the relation shows a star sign near the employee class.
We can use UML to model „one to many‟, „many to many‟ and so forth kind of relations.
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1b. Directed Association: Association between classes is considered to be bi-directional
by default. However we can fix the navigability of the association by using a directed
association. The arrowhead identifies the container-contained relationship.
1c. Reflexive Association: It does not need any special visual symbol. However, the
relation will point back at the same class. An example of this kind of relation is when a
class has a variety of responsibilities. For example, an employee of a company can be a
manager for another employee.
2. Aggregation: When a class is formed as a collection of other classes, it is called an
aggregation relationship between these classes. It is also called a "has a" relationship.
2a. Composition: Composition is a special kind of aggregation relationship in which the
life-cycle of the contained object strictly ends at (or before) the destruction of the
container object.
3. Inheritance/Generalization: Generalization is an "is a" relationship in which the child
class is a type of the parent class. Generalization is the basic mechanism for encouraging
reuse. The child classes "inherit" the functionality defined in the parent class.
4. Realization: In a realization relationship, one entity (normally referred to as an
interface) defines a set of functionalities as a contract and the other entity (normally
referred to as a concrete class) "realizes" the contract by implementing the functionality
defined in the contract.
Class diagrams help in identifying relationships in the space domain. For example in the
system currently under analysis, it may be helpful to capture that Group-reservation-info
and Corporate-reservation-info classes are inherited from Reservation-info class.
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Need for Activity Diagrams
Activity diagrams are used to model the dynamic behavior of any element of an object
oriented system. Two common uses include:
1. Modeling the flow of a use case
2. Modeling the behavior of an operation on a class(object)
Modeling the use case flow is beneficial in cases in which the flow appears to be complex
in terms of multiple alternate flows. It helps to get a broader picture of how the various
(alternate) flows branch and merge at different points. Besides symbols like fork/join
could be intelligently used to capture information that may not be clear in the use case
specification. Activity diagrams can be a very helpful input in drawing the interaction
diagrams.
Need for Interface Requirement Specification
While designing systems that need to interface with (existing/pre-designed) external
systems, we need to ensure that the external interfaces of our modules are compatible
with the interfaces presented by the external system. The IRS is used to capture such
requirements. Such interface requirements can also be represented on the class diagram
(covered earlier) using the “Realization” relationship.
For example, let us consider the scenario in which the Billing system needs to interface
with an existing print server. In this case we document the interface provided by the print
server as follows:
interface PrintServer {
// defines an abstract printer server
// requires: interface Printer, interface PrintDoc
// provides: initialize, print, displayPrintQueue, cancelPrintJob
void initialize (Printer p);
void print (Printer p, PrintDoc d);
void displayPrintQueue (Printer p);
void cancelPrintJob (Printer p, PrintDoc d);
} //PrintServer
Interface specification for Print Server
We can then proceed to elaborate the interfaces for Printer and PrintDoc (if required).
This ensures that the billing system developers know not only the procedural interface
but also the data format to be followed for interfacing with the (existing) print server(s).
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Need for State Diagrams
State diagrams help us to capture certain requirements that may be very crucial to the
correct/efficient working of the system. Even if they may not come directly into the final
SRS, they do affect the functional/non-functional requirements. A common example can
be that of a “Software Defect Tracking” system in which we need to capture not only the
valid states (like unassigned/assigned/resolved/deferred/retired) but also the valid state
transitions.
Specifying Functional Requirements using the Class Diagram
Functional requirements are usually written in the language conducive to programmers.
This means we are free to use standard programming constructs like sequence, iteration,
conditional logic etc which may not necessarily be clear to the customer. We should
include a short description of the need/responsibility of each class, each class-attribute as
well as each class-method.
Specifying Non Functional Requirements
Functional requirements specify the actions that the software must perform. Non-
functional requirements place restrictions on the product being developed and/or the
development process. They may also specify external constraints that the product must
meet.
Figure 8: Classification of Non Functional Requirements
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It is usually difficult to identify non-functional requirements, unless clearly specified in
the problem statement. In such cases, it is better to probe the customer using open-ended
questions in each of the categories given in the above diagram.
Software Requirement Specification
The SRS document is the official statement of what is required of the system
developers. It is NOT a design document. To the extent possible, it should only specify
WHAT the system needs to do, rather than HOW it should do it.
Each software product company/vendor usually has its own format for documenting the
requirements. Ideally the SRS should include the following topics:
Introduction.
General system description.
Specific requirements.
Appendices.
Index.
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