What happens when Scrum projects do not have clear user stories? Because Product Owner has the subject matter expertise and decision making capabilities, that does not mean that he can clearly communicate the requirements in a way that will make the developers/testers as productive as possible. This blog post explains that the best way to communicate requirements in a way that will make the developers more productive is for the Product Owner to write requirements as user stories.
Functional Requirements Are Not Always User Stories
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 MoreUnderstanding 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 MoreFind Missing Requirements
This blog post by Betsy Stockdale explains how to use the Feature Tree model to discover missing requirements.
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