Requirements

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Avoiding Over Design and Under Design
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The question of how much design to do up-front on a project is an engaging conundrum. Too much design often results in excess complexity and wasted effort. Too little design results in a poor architecture or insufficient system structures which require expensive rework and hurt more in the...
Al Shalloway, Net Objectives
Develop a Defect Prevention Strategy—or Else!
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Defects occurring throughout the development of a software project penalize the project. The effort spent remediating these defects robs the project team of valuable time, resources, and money that could otherwise be used for further innovation and delivering the highest possible quality...
Scott Aziz, Cognizant
Requirements Are Requirements—or Maybe Not
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Many people talk about requirements. They use identical terms and think they have a common understanding. Yet, one says user stories are requirements; another claims user stories must be combined with requirements; and yet another has a different approach. These “experts” seem unaware of...
Robin Goldsmith, Go Pro Management, Inc.
Agile Development Conference & Better Software Conference East 2014: EARS: The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax
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One key to specifying effective functional requirements is minimizing misinterpretation and ambiguity. By employing a consistent syntax in your requirements, you can improve readability and help ensure that everyone on the team understands exactly what to develop. John Terzakis provides...
John Terzakis, Intel
Top Challenges in Testing Requirements
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Studies show that at least half of all software defects are rooted in poor, ambiguous, or incomplete requirements. For decades, testing has complained about the lack of solid concrete...
Lloyd Roden, Lloyd Roden Consultancy
Ambiguity Reviews: Building Quality Requirements
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Are you frustrated by the false expectation that we can test quality into a product? By the time an application is delivered to testing, our ability to introduce quality principles is...
Susan Schanta, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Testing Lessons Learned from Monty Python
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And now for something completely different...
Rob Sabourin, AmiBug.com
Why Classic Software Testing Doesn’t Work Anymore
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The classic software testing team is becoming increasingly obsolete. Traditional processes and tools just don’t meet today’s testing challenges. With the introduction of methodologies...
Regg Struyk, Polarion Software
Better Software Conference East 2013: Data Collection and Analysis for Better Requirements
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According to studies, 64 percent of features in systems are rarely—or never—used. How does this happen? Today, the work of eliciting the customers' true needs, which often remains elusive, can be enhanced using data-driven requirements techniques. Brandon Carlson describes why traditional...
Brandon Carlson, Lean TECHniques, Inc.
Requirements Elicitation—the Social Media Way
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Agile methods have proven their ability to improve project success rates. However, when agile methods are applied to complex projects, we need to further explore the area of effective customer involvement. According to the agile philosophy, the users must be part of the development team.
Stefano Rizzo, Polarion Software

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