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Validate Requirements
Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
• adding examples where appropriate for clarification.
.3 Checklists
Checklists are used for quality control when verifying requirements and designs.
Checklists may include a standard set of quality elements that business analysts
use to verify the requirements, or they may be specifically developed to capture
issues of concern. The purpose of a checklist is to ensure that items determined to
be important are included in the final requirements deliverables, or that steps
required for the verification process are followed.
7.2.5 Guidelines and Tools
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7.2.6 Techniques
7.2.7 Stakeholders
• Requirements Life Cycle Management Tools: some tools have functionality
to check for issues related to many of the characteristics, such as atomic,
unambiguous, and prioritized.
• Acceptance and Evaluation Criteria: used to ensure that requirements are
stated clearly enough to devise a set of tests that can prove that the
requirements have been met.
•Item Tracking: used to ensure that any problems or issues identified during
verification are managed and resolved.
• Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): used to identify how to
evaluate the quality of the requirements.
•Reviews: used to inspect requirements documentation to identify requirements
that are not of acceptable quality.
• All stakeholders: the business analyst, in conjunction with the domain and
implementation subject matter experts, has the primary responsibility for
determining that this task has been completed. Other stakeholders may
discover problematic requirements during requirements communication.
Therefore, all stakeholders could be involved in this task.
7.2.8 Outputs
• Requirements (verified): a set of requirements or designs that is of sufficient
quality to be used as a basis for further work.
7.3 Validate Requirements
7.3.1 Purpose
The purpose of Validate Requirements is to ensure that all requirements and
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