Transportability Requirements
A
transportability requirement is a
utility requirement that
specifies a required amount of transportability, which is a
quality factor that is defined as follows:
- Transportability
- adj.[quality factor] the ability of something to be
physically moved from one location to another.
The typical objectives of a transportability requirement are
to:
- Ensure that the application or hardware component can be
moved as required. For example, physically transported by:
- Specific vehicles in a specific number of loads.
- Persons with specific physical abilities.
The following are typical examples of transportability
requirements:
- “The Advanced Common Command and Control System
shall be transportable with a single C131 cargo plane
.”
- “The client shall not weigh more than 5
kilograms.”
- “The maximum size of the client shall not exceed 30
centimeters.”
The following guidelines have been found to be useful when
producing transportability requirements:
- The scope of a transportability requirement can be:
- Transportability requirements may refer to other
standards (e.g., the carrying capacity of a specific vehicle)
rather than repeating these details as part of the
requirements.