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Software Requirements Specification (SRS) Template – Start Writing SRS For Your Project


What is SRS?
A SRS is basically an organization’s understanding (in writing) of a customer or potential client’s system requirements and dependencies at a particular point of time (usually) prior to any actual design or development work. It’s a two-way insurance policy that assures that both the client and the organization understand each other’s requirements from every perspective at a given point of time.

Benefits of a Good SRS

Establish the basis for agreement between the customers and the suppliers on what the software product is to do.
Reduce the development effort.
Provide a basis for estimating costs and schedules.
Provide a baseline for validation and verification.
Serve as a basis for enhancement.

What should the SRS address to?

Functionality: What is the software supposed to do?
External Interfaces: How does the software interact with people, the system’s hardware, other hardware, and other software?
Performance: What is the speed, availability, response time, recovery time of various software functions, etc.?
Attributes: What are the portability, correctness, maintainability, security, etc. considerations?
Design constraints imposed on an implementation. Are there any required standards in effect, implementation language, policies for database integrity, resource limits, operating environment(s) etc.?

What are the characteristics of a good SRS?

A SRS should be: Correct
Unambiguous
Complete
Consistent
Ranked for importance and/or stability
Verifiable
Modifiable
Traceable

Difference between System Specification and Software Specification:

Very often we find that companies don’t understand the difference between System Specification and Software Specification. Important issues are not defined up front and Mechanical, Electronic and Software designers do not really know what their requirements are.
The following is a high level list of requirements that should be addressed in a System Specification:
Define the functions of the system
Define the Hardware/Software Functional Partitioning
Define the Performance Specification
Define the Hardware/Software Performance Partitioning
Define Safety Requirements
Define the User Interface (A good user’s manual is often an overlooked part of the System specification. Many of our customers haven’t even considered that this is the right time to write the user’s manual)
Provide Installation Drawings/Instructions
Provide Interface Control Drawings (ICD’s, External I/O)

Download SRS Template


Here is the SRS Template by Karl Weigers
Download SRS Template If this link is not working,then go to this source(Source – www.processimpact.com)

Download SRS Sample

I did google and found a nice and simple SRS sample (didn’t get the author info). Hope this will help you.
Download Sample SRS for Online Examination System



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