You're right, there is no mechanism anywhere that can prove completeness with respect to the real world, which includes both an essentially infinite number of...
Ian, I agree with you, but you're not taking it far enough. For several years now, I've been helping several teams describe functional requirements with use...
Huet -- Interesting post about use case models and requirements. There's an online tool [1] that supports the writing of use cases as business rules [2] in...
This approach is all very well if you can guarantee that each function represented by a step is only ever used in one step in one use case. Otherwise you...
Huet, Keith, Happy New Year. You are taking the two opposite sides of a classic debate on use cases. Both positions have merit in specific situations. Huet is...
Keith, Ian - Happy New Year to both of you as well! Ian, thanks for your comments - I haven't read that book yet (so many books, so little time ! ) Many of...
Adrian, I've tried the IBL tool, and I like the approach. However, I have not had time to work out whether it could be reasonably used in our environment. ...
Hi Huet Thanks for your clarification. It sounds like we are, in fact, in violent agreement ;-) The one thing to still watch out for is that the relationship...
I just joined so forgive me if i'm too late for this one....what I would want CIOs to know about software requirements is that they can't have it both ways: ...
Dear All, I'm confused as to your understanding of the relationship between use cases and scenarios. Here's mine: Scenarios are instances of use cases. Use...
Hi all, Entirely agreed with Keith ! - ( I sent the below post yesterday but it seems not arrived) OTHER inconveniences if you try to use ONLY "use cases" for...
Hello all! I am Marcelo Oliveira (MAO), and work in the Processes Engineering area at the a Financial Organization. We work with requirements to define IT...
Hi, I recommend the web site for requirement networking group. http://www.requirementsnetwork.com There are articles and blogs about RE. Membership required. ...
Yes I did register and my name appeared on the screen, but I had not yet received registration acceptance. I have since been accepted and can now navigate...
I would like to open this conversation by asking this question: What are the best practices in QA (specific to IT projects) and what are the practices in using...
Hello, about your questions, here my two cents: you could take a look at QA process in most used/spread maturity models such as SPICE (ISO/IEC 15504 - ...
The major thing in testing is to focus on the essential. If we do not focus on the essential test cases, we tend to miss them - and tend to do to many, low...
Thank you Dr. Buglione. There's a lot of information in the links you had provided. I have referred to CMMi in past but TMM is something new I have come to...
I concur with Igor, traceability is vital. Tracing requirements through design and test ensures they haven't changed and are allocated across essential...
Hello Jay, no, also huge databases as the one by ISBSG (www.isbsg.org <http://www.isbsg.org> ) do not split the overall effort by support processes such as QA....
What class are you taking? ... From: Requirements-Engineering@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Requirements-Engineering@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of mrshll_mxn Sent:...
Hi Pedro, first of all, to which Agile Methodology (AM) do you refer? If it would XP (here the basic concept on ReqMgmt is given by "User Stories"), a possible...
Pedro -- You wrote... anyone knows tools to requirements management that addresses concepts from Agile Methodologies? The attached paper, from a Cutter...
