An XML-based Software Requirement Document for System Development

Abstract

This paper proposes an approach to change the procedure of the system development in the past by introducing the technique of XML. Under the framework, the developers write the results from requirements analysis down as a XML-based software requirement document in the initial period of the system development, and expect to turn software requirement documents into one of the system operation components through the machine readable XML documents. In other words, the developers only need to embed software requirement document into program in the implementation phase and then systems will operate according to the definition of software requirement documents. This approach not only makes user’ requirements come true completely, but also raises the convenience of software maintenance in the future. In view of it, if the systems need to be altered because of changes in business rules, we will just need to modify XML-based software requirement documents and then the systems will update the interior functions immediately.