In contrast, systems engineering tends to consider functional partitions rather than logical dependencies of the system. Functional models of the individual components make it possible to check and ...

When buying enterprise software, conventional wisdom says that users are the ultimate source of functional requirements. While this seems logical, it is incomplete because, apart from their pain ...

In today's enterprise landscape, software development often resembles a game of telephone. Business users articulate needs, and—after those needs go through layers of marketing, product and ...

Splitting behavior in functional and non-functional is — in low-level IT-engineering terms — a no-op. Now, thirty years ago, when we had relatively little IT, mostly providing functions ...

With the rapid growth in semiconductor content in today’s vehicles, IC designers need to improve their process of meeting functional safety requirements defined by the ISO 26262 standard. The ISO ...

Nonfunctional Requirements for Payroll Systems. If you're considering developing your own payroll system, or purchasing one, you should be concerned with both functional and nonfunctional aspects ...