Chapter 15. Validating the Requirements

Barry, a test lead, was the moderator for an inspection meeting whose participants were carefully examining a software requirements specification for problems. The meeting included representatives from the two major user classes, a developer named Jeremy, and Trish, the analyst who wrote the SRS. Requirement 83 stated, "The system shall provide unattended terminal timeout security of workstations accessing DMV." Jeremy presented his interpretation of this requirement to the rest of the group. "Requirement 83 says that the system will automatically log off the current user of any workstation logged into the DMV system if there hasn’t been any activity within a certain period of time."

"Does anyone have any ...

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