FWIW: The international ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 vocabulary standard, in its final draft but not yet formally published form, defines "requirement" as: "1. a...
Kevin: There is an old saying related to the stock market: "The masses are asses." Unfortunately, I find that such is true about the BA community just...
Tony, I know you said that people should probably not say things like '"Don't use the words functional and non-functional" but I frankly would love it if...
... It's possible that some of the comments I made could have been interpreted as saying that, so if that's the case let me make clear that I do agree that...
Donald: Soundslikereplacing non-functional requirements with the specifics you mention is logically needed, as is recongnition that some of what up to...
... We may have arrived at a point in this thread where we can recognize that there are two domains at work, business analysis and systems engineering, and...
I guess people use "non-functional" because all other suggestions are even less evident. "Quality" requirements don't sound better for me (I am mainly...
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Jerry: I believe you are making the same mistake that I have making regarding the BABOK: Trying to make logical sense out of a document that is based on...
Tony asked "Do others believe that this can be done?"---NO, I DO NOT. I know of at least another BOK in which the definitions of terms are inconsistent and...
Dear Members of RE Group: ISO 9000:2005 standards are priced and copyrighted and they are not accessible on the Internet. However there is a good accessible...
Hi, Putcha - I've always thought that ISO 9000 series standards have a very poor definition of quality, specifically because they link it to requirements. ...
A major problem with defining a concept like quality is that quality is not a single concept but rather a collection of related concepts. This is why it is...
Tyson Fitness of use refers to quality requirements not to correctness of functional requirements. For example, verify eligibilityusing SS# is a requirement....
Donald - I very much appreciate your distinction between "true" and "specified" requirements. Sadly, I have seen systems built where the DDI contractor knew...
Tyson, Understanding the critically-important difference between “true” requirements and “specified” requirements should be obvious to every member of...
Donald, I'd like to make sharp distinctions between unable to use (because of untrue functional requirements) and uneasy to use (because of not meeting quality...
Donald, 100% agree with garbage in garbage out. In software development, fixing garbages cause new garbages. If garbage growth rateis higher than the...
Donald, Again can not agree more about quality model. A question for you. Are quality requirementsthe same for all types of design objects? In other words,...
Jerry, Different types of quality (i.e., quality characteristics and quality attributes in the project quality model) are relevant for different types of...
Donald, Agreed starting with a comprehensive model to tailore from. Still categorizing design objects where each has a top quality model to be tailoredis...
Dear Donald and Jerry: Some of the questions you raised about product quality, approach quality (which is called processs quality in ISO vocabulary), multiple...
Dear Tyson: I have seen your mail but was not able to respond immediately. I find many more messages added but I would like to respond to your comment first. ...
Putcha, The quality of requirements may be verified against higher level requirements that may be verified against still higher requirements. We may call...
Putcha, I am well aware of the ISO 9000 series of standards. While I agree with some aspects of them, I disagree with others. I still think that their reliance...
Donald, Putcha, Tyson and all My view on ISO is that it is created agaist mature and established engineering disciplines or branches, not for software...
