What exactly is Requirements Specification?

[Sebouh]

Hi all. I have a document to submit and i have no idea how to do it. I am lost, so hope any of you can help me out.

First, i need to know what is SRS. Is it the Specifications doc, or is it a combination of requirements and specifications? Is it supposed to be in the application domain, machine domain or the interface?

Second, i've found a lot of templates on how to write an SRS document, but they don't look anything like the one I'm required to write. What I'm asked to do is write a document which has a data model, a set of actions (like procedures and functions) and global and temporal constraints (in the form of relations). I have found not a single SRS document which includes set of actions and temporal constrains in the form of events and such.

So are these common and i don't know about, or they are not supposed to be in an SRS document (which i highly doubt)?

thanks.

[Shashi Sadasivan]

Hi,
Well....SRS documents vary from what you want in it and what clients want.
Generally keep it to the bare minimum of what the clients require.

I have used SRS once and the client expected much less, however due to academic requirements we had to do a heap of it, but i was smart enough to talk into doing less.

We used the template off from sourceforge.net, but for some reason i am not able to track it down, so if you do not get a template by then, let me know, i think i have it stored somewhere.

But in general, your SRS will contain the requirements in words, in terms of use cases!

The SRS template in source forge which we used was based on the Rational Unified Process, so that should what you require i think. (everyone has a very deep interest in that methodology for some reason)

good luck