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 Author: 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.
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 Author: 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
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a seamless deployment strategy - MKS leaves a lot of its competitors stunned by
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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.
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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)…
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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.
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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
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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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