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Requirements Management in an Agile World - Does it Make Sense? Print
agileworldAuthor: Doug Akers

The main benefit of today’s Agile development methodologies such as Scrum or XP is the promise of delivering more in a shorter period of time and the value derived from having the flexibility to adjust your course mid-way through a development effort. But does this type of approach allow for requirements management? Is RM necessary given the shorter development windows – sprints, milestones, stories, whatever you call them?

Well -- does the need to deliver what the requirement originally requested go away? Does the desire to control change to the requirement go away? Of course not, and neither does the need for requirements management under these newer methodologies. The nature of RM will change, certainly, but the fundamental principles will not.
 
MKS Integrity 2007 pulls ahead of the competition with an integrated and comprehensive ALM solution. Print
nov07-pullsaheadAuthor: Bob Aiello

There has never been a more exciting and rewarding time to be in the industry of systems application development. There also has never been a time when the risks were greater and the margin for error more critical - you must get it right or your failure will make headlines the next day. From process workflow, application requirements, source code management, through setting up a seamless deployment strategy - MKS leaves a lot of its competitors stunned by its full set of features and versatile comprehensive solution. If you are a development manager and you want to get your projects under control than you should take a serious look at MKS Integrity 2007. Read on if you want to learn more about this process and workflow platform that can set the stage for your large scale development effort to be a success in terms of meeting your deliverables on time and within budget.
 
Three Tips to Improve Your Requirements-Based Testing (RBT) Print

Author: Moty Aharonovitz

Publisher: CIO Magazine

Our primary job, as QA and testing professionals, is to find defects in software builds. Fortunately, however, most of us have moved beyond exposing and tracking bugs to the more critical role of ensuring that the software our company is delivering meets customer expectations before it is released. To do this, many organizations have recently embraced requirements-based testing (RBT)…

 
Requirements Based Testing - Ambiguity Reviews Print

Author: Gary E. Mogyorodi

Publisher: The Journal of Software Testing Professionals December 2002 Issue, International Institute for Software Testing

An overview of the Requirements-Based Testing (RBT) process. RBT is a rigorous process for improving the quality of requirements and for deriving the minimum number of test cases to cover 100% of those requirements. RBT is comprised of two techniques: Ambiguity Reviews and Cause-Effect Graphing. This article addresses the first RBT technique - the Ambiguity Review.

 
Requirement Based Functional Testing Print
Author: David W. Johnson

Publisher: Dev Bistro (www.devbistro.com

Function (Integration) test is usually the first test phase that a test organization is responsible for during any given release. Requirements based Function Test is one approach to Function (Integration) test - it is a powerful and effective testing approach, which will significantly reduce the number of undetected defects (faults) being released into production. The premise is that a well-formulated set of functional requirements give the Test Designers
 
Risk and Requirements-based Testing Print
Author: James Bach

Publisher: IEEE Computer Society

A look at the risks with testing against requirements, how to state requirements in testable terms, and the need for traceability between test cases and requirements.
 
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