Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

This quiz covers the distinction between functional and non-functional requirements, the three categories of non-functional requirements (product, organizational, external), how to write testable non-functional requirements, metrics for measuring system properties, and the concept of requirements completeness and consistency

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Time: 15 minutes

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Definition of Functional Requirements

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Which of the following best describes functional requirements?

Constraints on the development process imposed by the client organization

Requirements derived from the application domain that constrain how computations must be carried out

Statements of services the system should provide, how it should react to particular inputs, and how it should behave in particular situations

Emergent system properties such as reliability, performance, and availability

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Functional Requirements — MHC-PMS Examples

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Which of the following are functional requirements for the MHC-PMS (mental health care patient management system)? Select all that apply.

A user shall be able to search the appointments lists for all clinics.

The system shall be available to all clinics during normal working hours (Mon–Fri, 08:30–17:30).

Users of the MHC-PMS system shall authenticate themselves using their health authority identity card.

The system shall generate each day, for each clinic, a list of patients who are expected to attend appointments that day.

Each staff member using the system shall be uniquely identified by his or her eight-digit employee number.

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Imprecision in Functional Requirements

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The requirement 'A user shall be able to search the appointments lists for all clinics' is considered ambiguous. What is the key ambiguity?

The word 'search' is ambiguous — it could mean a global cross-clinic search by patient name, or it could mean the user must first select a clinic and then search within it

It is unclear what 'appointments' means in a clinical context

It does not specify how many clinics the system supports

It is unclear who is allowed to perform the search

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Completeness and Consistency

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In principle, a functional requirements specification should be both complete and consistent. Fill in the blanks:

"(1) means that all services required by the user should be defined. (2) means that requirements should not have contradictory definitions of the same system function."

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Why Complete and Consistent Requirements Are Hard

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True or False: For large, complex systems it is practically impossible to achieve requirements that are fully complete and consistent.

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Definition of Non-Functional Requirements

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Non-functional requirements are best described as:

Constraints on the services or functions offered by the system, including timing constraints, development process constraints, and standards constraints

Detailed descriptions of specific services the system must deliver

Requirements that only apply to the user interface of the system

High-level natural language statements of what the system should do for end-users

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Non-Functional Requirements — System vs. Component Level

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True or False: Non-functional requirements often apply to the system as a whole, rather than to individual system features or services.

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Criticality of Non-Functional Requirements

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True or False: Non-functional requirements are often more critical than individual functional requirements because failing to meet a non-functional requirement can make the whole system unusable.

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Three Categories of Non-Functional Requirements

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Non-functional requirements are classified into three main categories. Match each category to its correct description.

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Description

Broad system requirements derived from policies and procedures in the customer's and developer's organization (e.g., development process requirements, operational requirements)

Requirements that specify or constrain the behavior of the software itself (e.g., performance, reliability, security, usability)

Requirements derived from factors external to the system and its development process (e.g., regulatory, legislative, ethical requirements)

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Classifying NFR Examples

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Match each of the following MHC-PMS non-functional requirements into the correct category.

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The MHC-PMS shall be available to all clinics during normal working hours (Mon–Fri, 08:30–17:30). Downtime within normal working hours shall not exceed five seconds in any one day.

Users of the MHC-PMS system shall authenticate themselves using their health authority identity card.

The system shall implement patient privacy provisions as set out in HStan-03-2006-priv.

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NFR Metrics — Matching Properties to Measures

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Match each system property to the correct metric used to measure it for non-functional requirements specification.

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Ease of Use

Reliability

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Percentage of target-dependent statements; Number of target systems

Processed transactions/second; User/event response time; Screen refresh time

Mbytes; Number of ROM chips

Time to restart after failure; Percentage of events causing failure

Mean time to failure; Probability of unavailability; Rate of failure occurrence

Training time; Number of help frames

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Goal vs. Testable NFR

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Consider these two statements about system usability:

Goal: The system should be easy to use by medical staff and should be organized in such a way that user errors are minimized.

Testable NFR: Medical staff shall be able to use all the system functions after four hours of training. After this training, the average number of errors made by experienced users shall not exceed two per hour of system use.

Why is the Testable NFR preferred over the goal?

The testable NFR focuses on training time, which is always the most important usability metric

The testable NFR is shorter and therefore clearer

The testable NFR was written by an engineer, while the goal was written by a user

The testable NFR provides measurable, objectively verifiable criteria; the goal is vague and cannot be tested

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Challenges in Measuring NFRs

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Which of the following are genuine difficulties in specifying non-functional requirements quantitatively? Select all that apply.

The cost of objectively verifying measurable NFRs can be very high

Customers always prefer vague goals because they are easier to write

Customers may not be able to relate measurable specifications to their everyday experience of computer systems

For some properties like maintainability, there are no usable metrics

Non-functional requirements can never be measured by any means

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NFR Conflicts and Interactions

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True or False: Non-functional requirements never conflict or interact with other functional or non-functional requirements.

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NFRs and System Architecture

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Why can non-functional requirements affect the overall system architecture rather than just individual components? Select all that apply.

To meet a performance NFR, you may have to organize the system to minimize communications between components

Reliability NFRs may require redundant components spread across the entire system

Non-functional requirements always map directly to a single identifiable component in the system

A single security NFR may generate multiple related functional requirements that define new system services and restrict existing ones

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Separating Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

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True or False: It is always straightforward to separate functional requirements from non-functional requirements in a requirements document, and they should always be kept in completely separate sections.

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Definition of Functional Requirements

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Functional Requirements — MHC-PMS Examples

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Imprecision in Functional Requirements

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Completeness and Consistency

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Why Complete and Consistent Requirements Are Hard

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Definition of Non-Functional Requirements

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Non-Functional Requirements — System vs. Component Level

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Criticality of Non-Functional Requirements

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Three Categories of Non-Functional Requirements

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Classifying NFR Examples

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Category

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NFR Metrics — Matching Properties to Measures

Property

Measure

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Goal vs. Testable NFR

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Challenges in Measuring NFRs

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NFR Conflicts and Interactions

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NFRs and System Architecture

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Separating Functional and Non-Functional Requirements

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