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These are the essential capabilities of the system expressed as including things that the system does or and that users do with the system.
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Sometimes referred to as non-functional requirements, system attributes are those desirable, positive characteristics of the system that distinguish it from alternative approaches to performing the same functions. These attributes are the qualities that make it beneficial to perform the system functions via the SKOPE system rather using ad hoc scripts, running individual programs directly, or managing data manually,