Software Requirements: A Tutorial,
Stuart R. Faulk · 1995
“The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No other part of the conceptual work is as difficult as establishing the detailed technical requirements...No other part of the work so cripples the resulting system if done wrong. No other part is as difficult to rectify later. ” [Brooks 87] Deciding precisely what to build and documenting the results is the goal of the requirements phase of software development. For many developers of large, complex