Everyone talks about “requirements analysis,” but not much is said about the requirements analyst. What kind of person should do this job? What do analysts really do? What do they need to know? This article “Structuring Use Cases with Goals” addresses these questions and summarizes some key analyst skills: listening, interviewing, analysis, facilitation, observation, writing, modeling, and more. Tips for the new analyst coming from either the technical or the user domain are also provided.
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 […]
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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.
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This blog post by Betsy Stockdale explains how to use the Feature Tree model to discover missing requirements.
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