Month: August 2011
Feedback-Driven Requirements Engineering
This article describes a usage scenario for the Heuristic Requirements Assistant. The Heuristic Requirements Assistant (HeRA) is the primary research demonstration tool that illustrates the concepts of our groups requirements engineering research.
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A User Story Primer
This article explains the application of Scrum user stories. In agile development, the user story is a lightweight and more nimble substitute for what has been our traditional means of specifying software requirements – software requirements specifications, use case specifications, etc.
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Is Requirements Engineering Really Necessary?
In this position paper for the INCOSE 2011 conference, Karen Smiley explains her view on the necessity of requirements engineering. She wrote that “getting a good understanding of the problem to be solved into the heads of the people responsible for solving it is essential to good engineering.”
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We Are all Part of the Conversation
In this blog post, Adriana Beal discusses the fact that all stakeholders in a project are part of the exploratory process of gathering requirements.
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Correct and Complete Requirements
Jim Hertzfeld discusses in this blog post the correctness and completeness of software requirements. These two characteristics of good requirement are the responsibility of the end-users.
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Common User Stories Mistakes
In this article, Krystian Kaczor explains that expressing requirements as user stories causes a lot of trouble to Scrum teams. He shares the five most common mistakes people make writing user stories.
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