Nivaar worked solution (AI-drafted; not reviewed by a licensed engineer)
National Exams, May 2015 — 04-Soft-A5, Requirements and Specifications (open book, one book of the candidate's choice, 3 hours, no calculator). The paper has four parts: Part 1 (30%) is ten statement/reason items on requirements-engineering theory; Part 2 (25%) is a two-page essay on the requirements-elicitation process; Part 3 (25%) covers non-functional requirements, including three NFRs for a life-critical avionics system; Part 4 (20%) asks for the seven characteristics of an excellent individual requirement and the three characteristics of an excellent requirements collection. This solution answers every part and every sub-item in full as a study resource.
Reference texts. Sommerville, Software Engineering, 10th ed., Ch. 4 (Requirements Engineering) & Ch. 5 (System Modeling); Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 9th ed., Ch. 8–9; SWEBOK v4, Requirements Engineering KA; ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 (requirements quality characteristics); ISO/IEC 25010 (SQuaRE quality model, used for the avionics NFRs in Part 3); Karlsson & Ryan and Karlsson, Wohlin & Regnell on requirements-prioritization scales (Part 1, items 1–2); Ruhe, Product Release Planning: Methods, Tools and Applications, on precedence/coupling constraints in release planning (Part 1, item 5); Lauesen, Software Requirements: Styles and Techniques, on requirement levels, task descriptions and focus groups (Part 1, items 4, 8 and 10; Part 2).
