As stated in Module 2, a requirement is a capability that the system must provide. It is derived directly from user needs or stated in a contract, standard, specification, or other formally imposed document.
The bracketed text that follows is an example of what a RequisitePro requirement in a document looks like; it appears in a document in the Learning Project - Use Cases, which you will be working with in Module 6:
The requirement consists of the following parts:
You determine the color and style in which you want the requirement to be presented (double underlined or small caps). The requirement text appears in documents within square brackets (bookmarks).
All requirements are stored in the database. You can create requirements in a document, in a view, or in the Explorer. When you create a requirement, you specify the requirement type and attributes. In the Requirement Properties dialog box, click the General tab to select the requirement type and to type the requirement name and text, and then click the Attributes tab to specify the attributes you want to associate with that requirement. View these tabs by clicking the buttons below.