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Requirements modification stage

publish date: 2026/05/29 09:03:21.197590 UTC

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After candidate components are identified, requirements may need to be adjusted.

What happens during the requirements modification stage?

Requirements are revised to reflect the capabilities and limitations of available components.

Only non-functional requirements are considered.

Requirements are frozen and cannot be changed.

All requirements are discarded and replaced with component documentation.

Requirements are revised to reflect the capabilities and limitations of available components.

Requirements modification aligns the system specification with what reusable components can realistically provide.

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 9th edition