Requirements for cross-cutting qualities
Assuring cross-cutting quality is a challenge that has become increasingly important as systems grow more complex. This also impacts how Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches …
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Strengthening the Requirements Engineering Process
The quality of a requirement is significantly dependent on its clarity and completeness. In many agile projects, requirements typically capture the primary intent of the software. …
Integrating User-Centric Design in Business Analysis
Discover how user-centric design (UCD) can transform business analysis to create more intuitive, efficient, and user-friendly solutions. This article delves into the practical …
Mission Possible
Concept for the successful handling of integral NFRs in Scaled Agile Environments.
Interview with John Mylopoulos
Preface of the Editor in Chief Perhaps it is like carrying coals to Newcastle when we briefly introduce John Mylopoulos in this preface to the following interview. Luisa Mich, …
Mastering Business Requirements
From the community for the community „Question existing work methods and solutions and rethink them at the beginning of projects — it will never be so cost-effective to do so …
Discover Quality Requirements with the Mini-QAW
Good quality requirements help software engineers make the right architectural design decisions. Unfortunately, collecting requirements is not always easy. The Quality Attribute …
Tracing Change Requests
One of the biggest challenges in software maintenance is the need to trace incoming change requests to the code affected by those requests. This need is especially acute in large …
KCycle: Knowledge-Based & Agile Software Quality Assurance
Agile paradigms and DevOps approaches have changed software engineering processes by focusing on iterativity, communication and collaboration between different project roles. …
Managing the Invisible
Software quality consists of many different aspects. Some of these aspects, like functional correctness or learnability, can be directly perceived and thus easily checked by the …
Agility and Obligation
Many clients believe in fixed price agreements with well-defined requirements specifications in order to control the outcome and costs of software development. But because of the …
Agility and Obligation
Developing software is a complex task. Especially the interaction between client and contractor is very challenging because de facto the client cannot completely describe his …