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Establishing the technical requirements is part of designing, developing and testing a new software system. In some cases, you may have to change the requirements several times along the way to meet ...

Traceability is becoming increasingly important in most engineering projects, if only on the grounds of ‘good practice,’ and it is specifically required for projects that have to meet safety standards ...

Part 1 of this feature discussed the need for requirements-based testing for traceability and verification, as well as standards compliance for critical software. Requirements based testing, and its ...

DO-254 enforces a strict requirements-driven process for the development of commercial airborne electronic hardware. For DO-254, requirements must drive the design and verification activities, and ...

You already know that design traceability is a cornerstone of staying compliant with the FDA’s product development traceability requirements and other international standards for submissions and ...

Design controls involve the translation of user requirements (aka Voice of the Customer) into specific technical requirements as design inputs. These design inputs then form the basis of the design ...

A subrequirement that derives from multiple primary requirements can be achieved using the concatenation of the cells in the reference coupled with a line-feed character. For example, if CEI ...

Welcome to another in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. This post ...