A Quality Framework for Agile Requirements

A Practitioner’s Perspective

Report (2014)
Department
Software Technology (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2014 The Author(s) . Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology
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30-04-2014

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Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2014-006

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Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Software Technology

Abstract

Verification activities are necessary to ensure that the requirements are specified in a correct way. However, until now requirements verification research has focused on traditional up-front requirements. Agile or just-in-time requirements are by definition incomplete, not specific and might be ambiguous when initially specified, indicating a different notion of ‘correctness’. We analyze how verification of agile requirements quality should be performed, based on literature of traditional and agile requirements. This leads to an agile quality framework, instantiated for the specific requirement types of feature requests in open source projects and user stories in agile projects. We have performed an initial qualitative validation of our framework for feature requests with eight practitioners from the Dutch agile community, receiving overall positive feedback.