SOPHIST Master Patterns Library

Sophist is a German training & consulting firm created in 1996, co-creator of the IREB standard and counting almost 60 members today.

The SOPHIST Master patterns library has been built from the methods & knowledge provided by Sophist in the following free accessible books:

• MASTER patterns (German edition): Requirements patterns to enhance the structuration of requirements documentation
• A short RE Primer: Overall description of the requirements engineering phase and set of rules (SOPHISTen-Regelwerk) for Requirements Engineering

Content of the knowledge library:

• The Master Patterns ready to use for authoring help (RAT – Authoring Tools) :
  • Functional Requirements (+ conditional sentences)
  • Non-functional requirements (+ conditional sentences)
• The implementation of the set of 18 rules for Requirements Engineering in RQA – Quality Studio