Software Requirement Specification for Digital Publishing Software

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Software Requirement Specification for Digital Publishing Software
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1. Introduction............................................................................................................. 3
1.1 Purpose............................................................................................................ 3
1.2 Document Conventions......................................................................................... 3
1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions..............................................................4
1.4 Project Scope..................................................................................................... 4
1.5 References......................................................................................................... 5
2. Overall Description.................................................................................................... 6
2.1 Product Perspective............................................................................................. 6
2.2 Product Features................................................................................................. 7
2.3 User Classes and Characteristics.............................................................................. 8
2.4 Operating Environment......................................................................................... 9
2.5 Design and Implementation Constraints....................................................................9
2.6 User Documentation............................................................................................ 9
2.7 Assumptions and Dependencies..............................................................................9
3. System Features...................................................................................................... 10
3.2. Language selection............................................................................................ 11
4. External Interface Requirements..................................................................................12
4.1 User Interfaces................................................................................................. 12
4.2 Hardware Interfaces........................................................................................... 12
4.3 Software Interfaces............................................................................................ 12
4.4 Communications Interfaces.................................................................................. 13
5. Other Nonfunctional Requirements.............................................................................. 14
5.1 Performance Requirements..................................................................................14
5.2 Safety Requirements.......................................................................................... 15
5.3 Security Requirements........................................................................................ 15
5.4 Software Quality Attributes..................................................................................15
6. Other Requirements................................................................................................. 15
7. References............................................................................................................. 16
8. Appendix A: Glossary............................................................................................... 19
9. Appendix B: Issue list............................................................................................... 19
10. Appendix C: Questionnaire..................................................................................... 20
11. Appendix D: Interview.......................................................................................... 20
Software Requirement Specification for Digital Publishing Software

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1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose
This document aims at publishing a detailed description of a digital publishing software. The
document will explicitly illustrate the purpose as well as features of the system, the software
interfaces, what the software is expected to carry out, how the system will react to external
stimuli as well as the constrain under which the software is expected to operate. This SRS is
intended for both the software developers and the stakeholders of the organization where the
software will be used, the paper will also be submitted to relevant authorities for it to be
approved.
1.2 Document Conventions
This subsection describes typographical and graphical that was followed when this software
requirement specification was being written (Rico, and Sayani, 2009, pp. 174-179):
a) The document has been written with times new roman font, size 12 in order for it to be
readable with people under visual disabilities.
b) Headings and subheadings of this document are written in bold in order to easily
distinguish them from normal text.
c) The graphical represented in this document are made clear enough and shall be visible for
people with color blindness.
1.3 Intended Audience and Reading Suggestions
This SRS document is intended for the following individuals:

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The document is intended for the software developers who can review the capabilities of project
so as to understand where their efforts are required in order to add more features of improve the
application. The document set the guideline for the development of this digital publishing
software (Stodden, and Miguez, 2013, pp. 71).
The document can also be used by project testers as a basis for their testing strategies due to the
fact that some bugs can be easily found using the software requirement document. By this, the
software testing will be organized methodologically.
The software requirement document is also can also be used by the application users who would
like to read about what the software can do.
1.4 Project Scope
The software will be a digital publishing through which documents will be published on a
website by editors. The software will be designed in order to increase the productivity of editors
through provision of tools that will aid in automatic article review and publishing process that
would (if the software were not there) be done the manual way. By improving the efficiency and
productivity of editors’ work, the software is intended to meet the needs of the editor while
remaining easy to use and understand.
To be more specific, the software is developed to enable an editor to work with and
communicate with a group of authors and reviewers to publish documents and articles in a
website. The system is intended to facilitate the communication by reviewers, authors, and
editors through email (Carreiro, 2010 pp.219-235). Reply forms which are preformatted will be
used in every stage of article progress in order to have a uniform review process; form’s location