A specification is a formal description of a product, a system or a service. A goal of the specification is to be defined it characteristics and quantified, with which the work or the service of the contractor can be examined with the delivery to the client and removed by the client and/or after that the contractor the payment demand can, if the characteristics of the specification were reached.

Specifications are distributed also in the context of the offer inquiry by the client, in order to make for the offerer possible a calculation of the offer.

In practice specifications do not contain always all requirements at a product or a service. Legal requirements, like prohibition of certain harmful materials are not e.g. mentioned usually and a basic understanding of an average specialist is presupposed.

A specification is usually a technical document, which is provided however for security more commercially (promises to pay) or legal interests (adhesion, guarantee). In this sense it is appropriate to draw a specification up in such a way that it predominantly describes, what one with the senses seize directly can, and not, according to which principle somewhat functions.

If the specification is not agreed upon explicitly with the placing of orders, e.g. with a normal purchase of a mass-produced article, "„the agreed upon condition can be regarded "“("§ 434 exp. 1 sentence 1 BGB) as specification, to which the salesman committed himself e.g. by a manual or an advertisement. A deviation from the specification represents a material defect and releases warranty claims.

In special ranges, e.g. for a software in computer science, the specification is the syntax and semantics or the implementation of a certain component, i.e. a deklarative description, which the program is or managed. On the basis a good specification a detailed comparison between being and actual condition can therefore be made.

See also

• Product requirement specifications
• Work statement

Related links

http://www.karlscharbert.de/ba/baIndex.html - represents the specification process for software development.

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