L3: Requirements Elicitation

What is the most important task under the Analysis phase of the Software Development Life Cycle?

• Maintenance

• Planning

• Feasibility Study

• Requirement Elicitation

What is a Requirement?

• A statement of what the system should taste like

• A statement of what the system should cost

• A statement of what the system should look like

• A statement of what the system must do

What are User Requirements focused on?

• What the system needs to do to function properly

• What the competitors are doing

• What the user needs to do to complete a needed job or task

• What the developers want to implement

What do Functional Requirements specify?

• The financial projections of the system

• The physical appearance of the system

• The marketing strategy for the system

• A process the system should perform as a part of supporting a user task

What do Nonfunctional Requirements focus on?

• Behavioral properties the system must have

• The color scheme of the system

• The font style used in the system

• The office layout of the development team

Which fact-finding technique involves collecting information from individuals face to face?

• Interviews

• Questionnaires

• Observation

• Document Analysis

What is the purpose of Probing questions?

• To get more meaning, clarify, and expand on the interviewee's point

• To end the interview quickly

• To confuse the interviewee

• To avoid getting detailed information

What is the benefit of Closed Interview Questions?

• Taking too much time for useful information, seeming unprepared

• Getting irrelevant information, losing control of the interview

• Making the interviewee feel comfortable

• Saving interview time, easily comparing interviews, getting to the point

What is the main purpose of Observation as a fact-finding technique?

• To gain insight into the as-is system by watching processes being performed

• To collect information from a large number of people

• To distribute special-purpose documents to respondents

• To ask individuals to complete a questionnaire on their own time

What is the reason for freezing the requirements in a project?

• To prevent scope creep and ensure stability in the project

• To allow the client to change requirements frequently

• To make the project more flexible

• To make it difficult to incorporate new requirements