requirements

Improve Software Quality With Requirements-Based Testing

Faulty requirements can pop up anywhere. For example, imagine you’re reserving a vacation suite. The requirements might include the length of stay, number of beds, kitchen, WiFi, proximity to attractions, and so on. If the booking clerk gets just one of these requirements  wrong, the experience could be quite different than what was intended by [...]

Requirements: Not Just for Application Projects

Talk about requirements and most people jump to the requirements work done for business application projects. But what about internal IT improvement projects or infrastructure projects? Applying a reasonable and light requirements discipline inside IT often faces more resistance than with business automation projects. Let’s take a look at the high-level types of requirements that [...]

Requirements Traceability: Why Bother

The good news is that your development team’s process for finding out what users really want has been effective, and you have developed sound practices for eliciting software requirements.  The bad news is that there are so many requirements! Everyone has an opinion and a desire. In many organizations, an active project is an open [...]