Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Chapter 29. Assessing Requirements Quality in Iterative Development

Key Points

• In iterative development, the primary quality check is the objective evidence provided by the availability and suitability of intermediate iterations.

• Assessment of requirements process quality and requirements artifacts can also occur at these checkpoints.

• Assessments must take into consideration the point in the lifecycle at which the assessment occurs.

• Successive refinement, rather than absolute completeness or specificity, is the goal.

We've come a long way in this book. From early lifecycle methods designed to support early and effective interactions with potential users and stakeholders to later, more rigorous lifecycle methods designed to help assure that we've built ...