[Year 12 SofDev] SRS operating environment

[Matheson, Heath A]

I've been thinking about this over this week as well.

I'm just wondering if I have been stuck in the past and still thinking
of "systems development" (people, equipment etc) rather than "software
development" (software to run a system). If we are looking at software
requirements and analysis, could the hardware components have already
been  through the design phase?

>From the examples I've looked at this seems to be the case. The
operating environment outlines the hardware that the software you are
going to design operates on. 

 

I have a question on DFD's. If a person stores a database in their head
(as can occur in some businesses), in a DFD is this still represented as
a data storage?

 

Cheers,

 

Heath Matheson

 

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[mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Mark KELLY
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Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] SRS operating environment

 

A little itchy question. In the standard SRS template there is a section
to describe the "operating environment".

I'm assuming this is this meant to describe the current environment and
should not include any upgrades or additions that the new system would
require.  Such upgrades could only be determined during design, rather
than during analysis.

Is that how you good folk interpret the "Operating Environment" SRS
section?

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