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Requirements Toolbox

As an analysis step, often it is desirable to capture simple system requirements. These are eventually realized by Use Cases.

Requirements Toolbox pages

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See also

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A Package is a namespace as well as an element that can be contained in other package's namespaces.

A Requirement defines a requirement of a system. Note that there are several different requirement types, such as:

Display
Functional
Performance
Printing
Report
Testing
Validate

 

A Feature is a small client-valued function expressed as a requirement. Features are the primary requirements-gathering artifact of the Feature-Driven Design (FDD) methodology.

A Risk element represents an identified risk to the project.

An Object is an instance of a Class.

 

Package
 

Requirement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Feature

 

Risk

Object

Notes

To add an element to the currently-open diagram, click on the appropriate icon and drag it into position on the diagram; set an element name and other properties as prompted
To add a relationship, click on the appropriate icon, then click on the start element in the diagram and drag to the end element