Knowledge
Software Requirements Management Articles, Blog Posts, Books and Quotes
Reviewing Requirements for Testability
Modern software development approaches like Agile and Scrum support a strong collaboration between all member of the software development team, software testers and business analysts included. Even if you don’t use a method like Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) or Specification by Example, checking the fact that you will be able to actually test your requirements is […]
Read More
Understanding System Analysis Models
This article is an extract of the “Complete Systems Analysis” written by James and Suzanne Robertson. It explains the basics of analysis models and emphasize that the important thing to remember is that modeling tools are complementary. Each shows one aspect of the system. Together, they make a complete working model of the system.
Read More
Find Missing Requirements
This blog post by Betsy Stockdale explains how to use the Feature Tree model to discover missing requirements.
Read More
Perfect Requirements
In this blog post, James Christie starts from the fact that perfect requirements don’t exist to discuss the idea that the quality of requirements is directly influenced by the time and money you invest in crafting them.
Read More
Why Should You Write Requirements
In this blog post, By Scott Sehlhorst starts with a simple fact: if there is a lot of discussions on how to write requirements, there is not so much material on why to write requirements. His advice is that you should start by thinking about why you write requirements before you decide how to write […]
Read More
Clarifiying the Role of Business Analysts
In this article, Trent Wong discusses how well the Business Analyst’s role is defined in organization. He starts by saying that the Business Analyst is a key success factor for software development projects. You need him to getting the requirements list properly, effectively communicating them to management and translating the requirements so the developers can […]
Read More