Requirements Traceability
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1 hour
Requirement-Management, and especially “Tracking Requirements” isn’t that complicated, but it needs some discipline. Often that discipline is replaced by a tool, which is encouraged by tool-vendors. That hardly ever works.
This blog introduces requirements traceability in a conceptual, but pragmatic way. It shows –as a demo– what a team has to do (defining requirements and describing the relations) and what the benefit is. It assumes a (more or less) agile way-of-work and shows how it can become lean. A small investment in good requirements definitions makes validations a lot easier.
And yes, it used a tool: a free one; as part of the documentation-system that is used for this side. An structured,
version-controllable, textual way to write documentation, including all requirements. With a plugin that
can visualize all specifications and their relations.
Those “particulars” will be shown too.
Summary (testers view)
For a simple development cycle, it easy to trace the validation of the product: All features should be covered by a test, and all should pass.
When multiple products –or multiple releases– are mandatory, this becomes quickly ambiguous: Some tests have to pass, and only the essential specifications need test-cases.
Then ‘requirements traceability’ becomes crucial: It gives insight into which ‘specs’ are required by each product/release and which tests are essential.
This article (as part of a workshop) shows a down-to-earth demo of how you set-up the ‘requirements traceability’ and how to use it.
We use the ‘tester view’: Be able to demonstrate the product does what was aimed for!
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