Specification

Requirements specification is an important aspect of the evolution of a Requirement. It provides an important catalogue of statements about the system's behavior in both normal and abnormal conditions. The Requirements will be of interest to a wide range of stakeholders including:

• Engineering Managers
• Architects
• Designers
• Customers or their surrogates
• System Engineers
• Software Engineers
• Testers
• Compliance Managers
• Quality Engineers
• Safety Engineers

All these groups will have both input to the Requirements and a need to use the catalog of Requirements in their work. There is a variety of ways in which requirements can be specified in Enterprise Architect, including:

• Directly in the Browser window
• On a diagram
• Using the Specification Manager

We will look at the Specification Manager in the next section, and you will see that it provides great flexibility when working with Requirements and other elements with textual content.