This is another common question. It is also a major complaint of both developers and testers. Developers often receive requirements from their customers that are not verifiable. How many times do we see requirements like the following: “The system shall … Read More
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Do we really need all these requirements?
We are often asked this question. It is common to see cases where projects over specify their requirements for a product. In one of our classes, we were told that one government organization had defined over 4,000 requirements for a … Read More
Traceability – Multiple Parent Requirements – Update
We were asked by one of our clients the following question via our Ask the Experts page: “Can a child requirement have more than one parent requirement?” More recently we received a similar question: “At our company, we take stakeholder … Read More
Managing Traceability Links When Requirements are Deleted
We were recently asked the following question from one of our clients concerning managing traceability and allocation links: “When you delete a requirement should you break the link so that it doesn’t continue to show up in Traceability Reports?” I … Read More
Allocation and Traceability
We were recently asked the following question from one of our clients concerning the decomposition of requirements: “Do Requirements Traceability Matrices always trace down? One of the concepts we try to ensure is parent requirements at lower levels of design. … Read More
