Are requirements found or created?

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There is talk of Requirements Survey or Requirements Elicitation (make appear). Also Requirements Collection.

It’s an investigative task.

It is not clear to me whether requirements are found (exist previously and are brought to light) or created (do not exist and come into existence).

Which of the two is more likely to say?

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    I don’t know, it’s Complicated. You can have a philosophical discussion about it and maybe there are the two, and it probably doesn’t matter, it matters to have them well defined before doing something.

  • The fact that they are iterative (discovered gradually) also does not help clarify, right? All right.

  • It seems to me that there is no right. It goes "of the occasion".

  • Either they already exist or they don’t exist, I don’t think it can be both. : ) or our understanding of the requirements that now exist?

  • Requirements simply "are" (where @Onosendai)?

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    "I want the search to be the same as Google". That was a requirement created right? " I tested, I thought a little and I think better that the PDF came out in Courier" was a discovery, a creation, or both? I saw one wasn’t good, but I created one that I think suits me.

  • Yeah, you’re right. Could be both.

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    They have already voted as based on opinion, but I also think that the "official" definition of requirement in the context of the question is already a question.

  • I voted. I did not know that the definition of requirement was an unknown.

  • There are only 3 already here, and without applying in a specific branch :D https://dicionario.priberam.org/requirement

  • But what about software requirements? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_requirements

  • What about Wikipedia? These are 5 references. Other sources may use other references.

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Requirements are created because they are not laws of nature to be discovered or revealed and may vary according to human interpretation.

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