Functional Vs Non-functional Requirements with Examples
Functional Vs Non-functional Requirements with Examples
Functional VS Non-functional Requirements
Requirement Analysis is a very critical process, and that are further classified into two types:
1. Functional requirements
2. Non-functional requirements
For instance:
How does the requirement impact the software development process?
There are more requirements for project success:
- 68% of projects need effective communication and requirement to deliver and meet quality standards successfully.
- At the same time, sparse estimation during the planning phase and unclear requirements, 32% of IT projects fail.
- Of course, Unclear requirements may increase the project timeline and budget up to 60%.
- Also, an unclear requirement for software staff, and external professional services, consume over 41% of the IT development budget.
Detailed Functional and Nonfunctional Requirements
Detailed functional and non-functional requirements help the software engineer to complete the following task easily.
Define the terms and roles: Requirements help to avoid misunderstanding in the future and ensure the development team and stakeholders are on the same page.
Reduce communication time: During the project development, close cooperation with business analysts helps to ensure clear requirements which reduce the development time. As well as understanding the clear requirements helps to reduce the project cost.
Make the project estimation more precise: Requirements in detail help to estimate the development time and cost more accurately.
See the possible mistakes beforehand: When the project details are visualized by the project team during the inception phase, they may identify errors in the initial stage of project development. Although this may be true inception in the initial stage saves your time and budget.
Create more predictable projects: To develop the projects that meet your expectations and to predict the results, high-quality requirements, and wireframes are needed.
Detailed requirements help to create a project that meets business needs and expectations. It also helps developers and stakeholders to find a common language, save money and development time.
Classification of requirements

You need to clarify your business idea into a working solution
Business requirements: A business requirement that includes the high-level statement of goals, needs, and objectives of your project.
Stakeholder requirements: Stakeholder requirements help to find a particular solution for your business expectation.
Solution requirements: The solution requirements that describe the product characteristics to meet expectations and business needs.
Solution requirement which includes:
Functional requirements
Non-functional requirements
Functional requirements

Examples of functional requirements:
- Business rules
- Transaction corrections, adjustments, and cancellations
- Administrative functions
- Authentication
- Authorization levels
- Audit tracking
- External interfaces
- Certification requirements
- Reporting requirements
- Historical data
Functional Requirement specification document
Purpose
Overall description
Specific requirements
It might be database requirements, system attributes, and functional requirements.
For example,
Admin dashboard – it is a web portal that allows the admin to view and manage the applicant’s and customers’ information.
Use cases
Each use case three elements:
i) Actors interact with the products with the users.
Applicant – A person who wants to use the mobile app and register in it.
Customer – A person who is approved for registration and using the app.
Driver – A person, who was registered in the driver app and fulfill ride orders for members received from the app.
ii) System functional requirements: It describes the intended behavior of the product.
For example,
“Payment system charges for customers ride”
iii) Goals: It describes all interactions between the users and the system.
User stories: From the end-user perspective, it is the documented description of software features. The feature describes how the users engage with the solution.
For example,
“As a customer, I want to select a car from the carousel so that I can complete the order.”
Function decomposition

Mobile app prototypes
There are two types of prototypes:
Throwaway prototypes: It is cheap and fast visual representations of requirements.

Evolutionary prototypes: it is more complex.

Non-functional requirements

- Usability: The users get easily interact with your products to achieve the required goals effectively and efficiently.
- Legal or regulatory requirements: It describes if the product violated the regulations, it may result in legal punishment.
- For example, a mobile taxi platform- legal requirements. The authority transport should license the local transport platform.
- Reliability: Your team should eliminate bugs that may influence the code safety and issues with the system to achieve high reliability.
- Performance: Non-functional requirements are implemented until the desired behavior is achieved. When users interact in various scenarios the solution should behave to achieve the desired performance.
- For Example, “The application shows cars nearby for three seconds”.
Non-functional requirements are not so distinct it may miss by team and stakeholders due to the following:
- Subjective nature: Different users in different ways can view, interpret, and evaluate non-functional characteristics.
- Integrated nature: It is conflict and typically has a broad effect on systems.
- Assuming that everybody knows: Both the client and the team forget about some non-functional requirements during inception also might arise only after the project release.
How to define non-functional requirements
User-defined classification: It is classified into three groups: operation, revision, and transition. So, to discuss non-functional needs, the stakeholders and the development team build a consistent language.
With a list of predefined elicitation questions: The predefined elicitation interviews and workshops help to improve productivity.
Engage with the development team: Ensure that your defined requirements are on the same page with the development team.
Use invented wheels: The software systems have a lot in common when comparing non-functional requirements and reuse the requirements written for other systems.
Use automated testing tools: The tools help to check your product performances faster and reveal more non-functional requirements. For example, tools such as Selenium, Test Complete, and Appium.
Final thoughts
Author
Kush P
Kush Patel is the Chief Technical Officer and Managing Director of Echo Innovate IT – a software development company. He is responsible for the overall operations of the company and has played a major role in making Echo innovate IT the top-notch IT services provider and transforming it into a globally trusted web and app development company.