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◦ Customer Requirements is characteristics and specifications of a good or
service as determined by a customer. It also should be present in a
product for it to be deemed desirable by the consumer.
◦ Meanwhile requirements engineering is the discipline that involves
establishing and documenting requirements. The various activities
associated with requirements engineering are elicitation, specification,
analysis, verification and validation, and management.
Table 4.3 : Example criteria on customer requirement and engineering
requirement
Customer requirement Engineering requirement
Compact Material performance
Easy to operate Operable at any condition
Good in design Harmless to user
Light weight
Used for function specification Used for prediction of subsystem and
components
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