ITPEC IP October 2023 Question 98
When the software life cycle is divided into the planning process, requirements definition process, development process, and operation process, which of the following is an appropriate activity in the requirements definition process?
Explanation
Stakeholders' needs identification — the requirements definition process starts by finding who the stakeholders are and what they need.
The requirements definition process starts from the computerization plan. It identifies the stakeholders, draws out their needs, turns them into the functional and non-functional requirements of the system, and has the stakeholders agree on them, so that development can build against an agreed baseline.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) — moving the business and the system over to the new system is transition, carried out in the operation process
- •(b) — drawing up the computerization plan is the planning process, which comes before requirements definition
- •(c) — detailed design of the software is part of the development process, which builds to the defined requirements
Key rule: Planning decides why and what to computerize; requirements definition finds and agrees what the stakeholders need; development designs and builds; operation moves the business over and runs it.
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