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Requirement Analysis

Requirement Analysis

Requirement Analysis is Pidima's AI-powered quality assessment tool that evaluates your requirements against custom criteria documents, detects conflicts and duplicates, and suggests improvements.

Overview​

Requirement Analysis provides three capabilities:

  1. Criteria-Based Analysis — Evaluate requirements against uploaded criteria documents (e.g., writing guidelines, quality standards)
  2. Conflict & Duplicate Detection — AI-powered identification of contradicting or semantically duplicate requirements
  3. AI Improvement — Generate improved requirement descriptions based on analysis findings

Criteria Documents​

Uploading Criteria​

Before running a criteria-based analysis, upload your quality criteria documents:

  1. Navigate to Requirements → Analysis
  2. Click Upload Criteria
  3. Select a PDF or Excel file containing your requirement quality criteria (e.g., INCOSE guidelines, internal writing standards)
  4. The document is processed and stored for your project

Managing Criteria​

  • View — See all uploaded criteria documents for the current project
  • Delete — Remove criteria documents you no longer need

Running a Criteria-Based Analysis​

  1. Select one or more requirements from the requirements list
  2. Click Analyze → By Criteria
  3. Select which criteria document(s) to evaluate against
  4. Click Start Analysis

The AI evaluates each requirement against the criteria and produces:

  • Compliance score — How well the requirement meets the criteria
  • Issues found — Specific criteria violations with explanations
  • Recommendations — Suggestions for how to fix each issue

Conflict & Duplicate Detection​

  1. Select a set of requirements (or an entire level)
  2. Click Analyze → Conflicts & Duplicates
  3. The AI compares requirements pairwise to identify:
    • Conflicts — Requirements that contradict each other (e.g., conflicting thresholds, incompatible behaviors)
    • Duplicates — Requirements that express the same intent with different wording

Results​

Each detected issue includes:

  • Requirement pair — The two requirements involved
  • Issue type — Conflict or Duplicate
  • Explanation — AI-generated reasoning for why these requirements are flagged
  • Severity — How critical the issue is

AI Improvement​

After running an analysis, you can ask the AI to improve a requirement:

  1. View the analysis results for a requirement
  2. Click Improve with AI
  3. The AI generates an improved description that:
    • Addresses the criteria violations found
    • Resolves ambiguity or vagueness
    • Maintains the requirement's original intent
  4. Review the suggestion and click Apply to update the requirement

Integration with Gap Analysis​

The conflict and duplicate detection in Requirement Analysis is also available as part of Gap Analysis. When you enable the "Conflicting Requirements" and "Duplicate Requirements" checks in a gap analysis run, it uses the same AI pipeline described here.

Best Practices​

  • Upload your organization's writing standards as criteria documents for consistent quality evaluation
  • Run analysis after bulk imports — Imported requirements often have inconsistent quality; analysis helps identify issues quickly
  • Address conflicts first — Conflicting requirements are higher priority than duplicates since they can lead to design errors
  • Use AI improvement iteratively — Apply the suggestion, then re-run analysis to verify the improvement resolved the issue
  • Combine with Compliance Intelligence — Use Requirement Analysis for quality criteria and Compliance Intelligence for regulatory compliance; they serve different purposes