How to test software requirements specification?

Software requirements specifications is often called “SRS” in its short form. We
can simply put it as a specific requirement for a software system or application.

PURPOSE OF SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION

- These requirements specifications give a view of how exactly the system should and how it should behave.
- The software requirements specification comes with a set of cases describing all the possible interactions of the users with the software system or application.
- Such test cases have been termed as ‘use cases”.
- The software requirements specifications contains both kinds of requirements i.e., functional requirements as well as non functional requirements.
- Software requirements specification is an important sub field under the software engineering field.
- The software requirement specification provides a way to enlist all the requirements necessary for the development of the software project in one place.
- It deals with the following issues with regard to the software system or application:


1. Specification
2. Elicitation
3. Analysis and
4. Validation


OVERVIEW OF SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT SPECIFICATION

1.Introduction
This mentions the purpose of the software along with its scope, definitions, a brief overview and a set of references.

2.Overall Description
This section of the SRS describes the perspective, functions, user characteristics, constraints, dependencies and assumptions of the software application.

3. Specific Requirements
This is the most important part of an SRS and includes description of functions, interfaces, logical data base requirements, performance requirements, design constraints and key features.

HOW TO PRODUCE AN EFFECTIVE SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION?

- For producing an effective software requirements specification, you need to test it.
- Therefore a software requirements specification testing has been designed.
- It is popularly known as requirements analysis.
- Requirements analysis analyzes all those tasks that help in identifying the requirement specifications of the software system as well as the requirements specifications itself.
- This actually forms the initial stage of the requirements engineering which is again concerned with the above listed activities.
- The analysis of the requirements specification is crucial for any software system or application.
- All the identified requirements should have the following properties:


1.Actionable
2.Can be documented
3.Testable
4.Traceable
5.Measurable and
6.Defined


PHASES OF SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION TESTING
The software requirements specification testing comprises of the following three phases:

#1. Elicitation of the Requirements:
- This phase involves the identification of the requirements of the consumers.
- This process of communicating with the users and gathering requirements is very well known as requirements gathering.

#2. Analysis of the Requirements:
- This phase involves the determination of the clarity, completeness, ambiguity, contradiction of the requirements.
- If issues are found, they are resolved.

#3. Recording of the Requirements
- There are various ways in which the requirements might be documented.
- Whatever the way maybe, it should be clear and concise.
- Some commonly used methods are: natural language documents, user stories, process specifications and use cases.