Abstract
International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(11):
104-118, 2021 Requirements engineering process intends to obtain software services and
constraints. This process is essential to meet the customer's needs and
expectations. This process includes three main activities in general. These are
detecting requirements by interacting with software stakeholders, transferring
these requirements into a standard document, and examining that the
requirements really define the software that the client needs. Functional
requirements are services that the software should deliver to the end-user. In
addition, functional requirements describe how the software should respond to
specific inputs, and how the software should behave in certain circumstances.
This paper aims to develop a software requirements specification document of
the electronic IT news magazine system. The electronic magazine provides users
to post and view up-to-date IT news. Still, there is a lack in the literature
of comprehensive studies about the construction of the electronic magazine
software specification and design in conformance with the contemporary software
development processes. Moreover, there is a need for a suitable research
framework to support the requirements engineering process. The novelty of this
paper is the construction of software specification and design of the
electronic magazine by following the Al-Msie'deen research framework. All the
documents of software requirements specification and design have been
constructed to conform to the agile usage-centered design technique and the
proposed research framework. A requirements specification and design are
suggested and followed for the construction of the electronic magazine
software. This study proved that involving users extensively in the process of
software requirements specification and design will lead to the creation of
dependable and acceptable software systems.