Chapter 27. Quality Measures of Software Requirements

Key Points

  • Having a set of requirements is the primary quality goal; in addition, those requirements must themselves meet nine measures of quality.

  • Checklists can be used to ensure the quality of requirements, the use-case model, and use-case specifications and actors.

  • A high-quality Modern SRS Package has a good TOC, a good index, a revision history, and a glossary.

Quality, like art, is tough to measure. "I know good art when I see it." Nevertheless, we have to establish a way to measure and to improve the quality of our specifications. Of course, one measure of the quality is whether we get a good product at the end of the development project. But that's not very helpful, because lots of other ...

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