On an individual requirement by requirement basis, quality requirements are typically much more important than functional requirements because they most strongly drive the architecture of software-intensive systems. Thus, it is how well the quality requirements are engineered and implemented that tends to determine the success or failure of mission critical systems. Yet, missing or poorly speci...

We present a design process for incorporating data quality requirements into database schemas that is rooted in goal-oriented requirements analysis techniques, developed in the Requirement Engineering community over last 15 years. Goal-oriented approaches (i) offer a body of notations, techniques and processes for modeling, analyzing and operationalizing quality requirements; (ii) support repre...

There are two methods that are used to translate the customer requirements into software specification. First one is the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and the second approach to the identification of software specification comes from the software engineering. Software requirements stipulate what must be accomplished, transformed, produced or provided. It is well documented that requirement ...

Most software problems arise from deficiencies in the manner in which software requirements are elicited and expressed. Ensuring that the Software Requirements Specification document (SRS) has the necessary quality is crucial to the success of any software development project, since its information is used across all project stages. However, assessing the quality of a SRS is not a simple proces...