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Requirement Properties

Requirement properties differ slightly from the properties of other elements; they include information related to the Type, Status, Difficulty and Priority of the Requirement. The Notes field is also important, as it describes precisely what requirement the element represents. Requirement naming can also require careful consideration and could reflect either a categorical naming convention, or simply a loose English description of the Requirement.

Access:     Requirement Element Context Menu | Properties

Use to:

  • Document requirements
  • Set Requirement features such as Type, Status and Priority
  • Set other element properties common to both Requirements and other model Elements

Reference:

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Short Description

The name of this requirement, which could include numbering, plain English description or some other formal specification

 

Alias

An alias to be used for this requirement

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Status

The current status of this requirement

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Difficulty

An estimate of the difficulty in meeting this requirement. Enterprise Architect supports the values 'Low', 'Medium', 'High'

 

Priority

The relative importance of meeting this requirement compared to other requirements; select from:

  • Low
  • Medium
  • High'

 

Author

The author of this requirement

Authors

Key Words

A set of words that could be used to index or define the subject of this requirement

 

Type

The type of this requirement.  This is typically used as a category for the requirement.

Requirement Types

Phase

The phase of this requirement.

 

Version

The version of this requirement.

 

Last Update

Read-only field specifying when this requirement was last changed.

 

Created

Read-only field specifying when this requirement was first created.

 

Notes

The description of this requirement.

Note Editors, Linked Documents

Notes:

  • In Requirement Management tools and texts, the characteristics of a requirement are commonly called attributes. However, in UML the term attribute refers to a different type of feature, and the requirement characteristics are defined as properties.  In this Enterprise Architect documentation, the term properties is used
  • In a project, it might be necessary to define more information in a requirement than is provided by the standard properties. For more information on extending the requirement properties, see the Extend Requirement Properties topic

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