Interaction between Requirements and Features
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Dear readers, I'm confused about the interaction between the terms "requirements" and "features". I read a lot about that but I didn't really get the point. There are a lot of statements, as: 1. A feature is built from a group of requirements 2. Traceability (between requirments and implementation) is possible only for features and not for requirements. ...and a lot more... Can somebody provide me some information? Thank's ! !
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Dear readers, I'm confused about the interaction between the terms "requirements" and "features". I read a lot about that but I didn't really get the point. There are a lot of statements, as: 1. A feature is built from a group of requirements 2. Traceability (between requirments and implementation) is possible only for features and not for requirements. ...and a lot more... Can somebody provide me some information? Thank's ! !
Requirements are 'the app needs to do x' Features are 'we added y to the app, and this deals with requirement x' It's probably largely semantic, but I'm sure it keeps some consultants in a job.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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Requirements are 'the app needs to do x' Features are 'we added y to the app, and this deals with requirement x' It's probably largely semantic, but I'm sure it keeps some consultants in a job.
Christian Graus No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
Thanks's for your answer, but I still are unable to catch the point probably :-))) As I understand you, Requirements are from the user and Features are from the implementation. Am I right? Let me try an example: We have 3 user requirements: R1: Read configdata from file after startup R2: Store configdata to file at closing I have the following implementation (-features) I1: Search file from directory-tree I2: Read config-file I3: Interpret config-file I4: Write config-file This means: R1 is implemented by I1 and I2 and I3 R2 is implemented by I1 and I4. For getting traceability now, I have to check which requirement is implemented by which feature. Is my thinking right in some way? With kind regards