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Requirement Types

In a Requirement definition for an element, you can categorize the requirement according to type or function, which helps to maintain a single set of typed requirements. The following system types are provided:

Display
Functional
Performance
Printing
Testing
Report
Validate

 

You can add to or replace any of these types with your own customized values.

Access     Settings | Project Types | General Types > Requirement

Customize Requirement Types

Field

Usage

See also

Requirement

Type the name of the requirement.

 

 

Description

Type a short description of the requirement.

 

 

Weight

Type a weighting to apply to the requirement type.

 

 

New

Clears the dialog fields so that you can define a new requirement type.

 

 

Save

Saves the requirement type details and adds it to the Defined Requirement Types list.

 

 

Delete

Deletes a selected requirement type from the Defined Requirement Types list.

 

 

Defined Requirement Types

 

Lists the currently available requirement types.

 

Notes

You can transport these requirement types between models, using the Export Reference Data and Import Reference Data menu options

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