Documenting Software Requirements Specification: A Revisit

Software Requirements Specification (SRS) is the key documentation, defining the functional and non-functional system requirements. By revisiting a number of in the literature much discussed key aspects related to SRS and extracting essential views from the author’s daily work experience, this papers stresses the importance of the SRS and examines the process, which enables the emergence of a quality SRS. Business information must be acquired, discussed, analysed and digested, which forms the inputs for the documentation of SRS. A SRS typically consists of a set of documents, including the SRS itself, which is a written description of business requirements and system features, and analysis models.