November 8, 2017
Reviewing Requirements for Testability
Modern software development approaches like Agile support a strong collaboration between all member of the software development team, software testers…
Category: Articles
February 21, 2014
Techne: New Requirements Modeling Languages
Techne is an abstract requirements modeling language that lays formal foundations for new modeling languages applicable during early phases of…
January 14, 2014
User Stories for Both Requirements and Testing
User stories are a technique taken from the agile development playbook that can easily be applied in traditional systems development…
January 7, 2014
Understanding System Analysis Models
This article is an extract of the “Complete Systems Analysis” written by James and Suzanne Robertson. It explains the basics…
October 8, 2013
Clarifiying the Role of Business Analysts
In this article, Trent Wong discusses how well the Business Analyst’s role is defined in organization. He starts by saying…
June 27, 2013
User Stories Are Not Requirements
The common wisdom is that Agile register requirements using the user stories format: “”As a , I want <goal/desire> so…
June 6, 2013
Modeling with SoaML: Service identification
The power of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) is in its ability to enable business agility through business process integration and…
May 15, 2013
Using UML or IDEF for Business Modeling
The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a modeling language standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG) used to manage requirements…
April 2, 2013
Linking Requirement and Acceptance Tests
Acceptance tests and requirements are linked. You can’t have one without the other. The tests clarify and amplify the requirements.…
March 28, 2013
Value-Based Software Engineering
Value-based software engineering (VBSE) is an approach that take into account the fact that software has a major influence on…