Examples of Non-Functional Requirements
Examples of Non-Functional Requirements
• Usability requirement
• Serviceability requirement
• Manageability requirement
• Recoverability requirement
• Security requirement
• Capacity requirement
• Availability requirement
• Scalability requirement
• Interoperability requirement
• Reliability requirement
• Maintainability requirement
• Regulatory requirement
• Environmental requirement
Examples of Non-functional requirements:
1. Users must change the initially assigned login password immediately after the first
successful login. Moreover, the initial should never be reused.
2. Employees never allowed to update their salary information. Such attempt should be
reported to the security administrator.
3. Every unsuccessful attempt by a user to access an item of data shall be recorded on an
audit trail.
4. A website should be capable enough to handle 20 million users with affecting its
performance
5. The software should be portable. So, moving from one OS to other OS does not create
any problem.
6. Privacy of information, the export of restricted technologies, intellectual property rights,
etc. should be audited.