Dear All: Could you share some insights about the above? At our company we have tried to perform requirements assurance analysis from the qualitative point of...
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Feb 5, 2010 11:04 am
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It is hard to answer without knowing your context. The classic paper below addresses quality issue well  "No Silver Bullet - Essence and Accidents of...
Charles, You might want to check out the following: “Quality Requirements Checklist,” Journal of Object Technology (JOT), Volume 4, Number 9,...
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Feb 5, 2010 3:07 pm
All, As mentioned in previous posts, requirements average about 1 defect per function point; or 20% of total defect potentials. Requirements also average about...
One way is to have your QA team try to identify the root cause of any defect as either code- or requirements-related. But it will add some overhead to the...
Hi Charles, about quality requirements, a set of possible metrics/measure can be derived from ISO/IEC 9126 parts 2-3-4, with c.a. 200+ measures with a full ...
One of the best approaches that I know of is the one proposed by Tom Gilb with his Planguage. In Planguage, the quantification of quality requirements is one...
We have done a lot of work with agile methods and requirements - typically on large projects where people recognize that writing down requirements in detail is...
I agree completely with you jerry. We have a saying at Seilevel that one level’s requirement is another level’s design. The concept of “need” vs...
At Seilevel we have three categories of models People Systems and Data (PSD) which give full coverage to the functional requirements of a system. They enable...
Jerry, I think the question is what part of the process of building a bridge (or any other civil project) actually maps to software development. For example,...
To say that process flows relate to how people use a system and data flow diagrams do not is incorrect. It is common "wisdom" but incorrect.  Data flow...
Dear Tony: When you wrote: To say that process flows relate to how people use a system and data flow diagrams do not is incorrect. It is common "wisdom" but...
Dear Anthony C. Chen: You wrote: Im not sure that requirements can really be “engineered” the title of this list notwithstanding. Im also not sure any...
Yes, a detailed specification of requirement is a kind of design but the need and feature are not interchangeable in the same manner. A need may have many...
Putcha: Â What Anthony Chen stated is widely accepted:Â In part, basically that there are people models (he includes process flow diagrams and use cases)...
I think you misinterpreted what I said by attributing your preconceived notions to my positions without actually understanding what I actually said. It seems...
Anthony:  I definitely was not trying to "pick a fight".   By me stating that what I perceive you stated as being the generally accepted line of thought,...
I saw the recent posts, each having a piece of truth. For the informality of nature language and not intended to draw the whole picture, some imagination and...
Dear Tony: I see that the same terms are used in related fields of systems analysis and business analysis to mean different things, at times conflicting....
I believe that in this group there are professionals from different fields / backgrounds coming together to establish a common ground for RE. Even within SSAD...
That is very considerate of Tony. I did not see this side of you so far Tony. I am trying to harmonize the Workflow Diagrams, DFDs, Activity Diagrams of UML...
I think that is a good point, there are different industries and applications that use words in different ways. What I see a lot on this list is extremely...
Tony, What you said is interesting. Hope to elaborate. You mentioned terms like project objectives, business value. (Porbably business objectives be included)....
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Feb 12, 2010 10:18 am
Anthony, Have you published anything on requirements that are generic versus unique? It seems to me that your company is well placed to identify potentially...
Jerry, Chen, Toney and friends: Words and Defined Meanings:Â Yes, the key for understanding and progress is definition of terms and agreement on those...
Capers, Back during the dot-com bubble, I worked for Lante Corporation as a chief architect where we developed e-Marketplaces. Although we did not know the...
We don’t have anything published but we periodically do use some requirements patterns. We keep the patterns in caliber so a team can just copy them over....
Capers, Michael Jackson has a book (in 2001 as I recall) just for resuable requirements. He call it problem frames. He is one of the earliest who study...
