Chapter 2

Question 1

Consists of sub-processes or activities

Answer 1

Volere requirements process

Question 2

What are outputs also known as?

Answer 2

Deliverables

Question 3

T/F The output from a previous activity can be input to a subsequent activity

Answer 3

T

Question 4

What is the purpose of project blastoff?

Answer 4

Build the foundation for requirements discovery

Question 5

Strategic product plan and business needs are inputs to…

Answer 5

Project blastoff

Question 6

What are the outputs of project blastoff?

Answer 6

Scope, goals, stakeholders, initial cost estimate, go/no go decision

Question 7

What are context diagrams used to define?

Answer 7

Scope and connections between the work and adjacent systems

Question 8

a system (person, organization, or computer system) that provides to or receives information from the work

Answer 8

Adjacent system

Question 9

Defines the scope and connections between the work and adjacent systems

Answer 9

Context diagram

Question 10

What are stakeholders represented as in a context diagram?

Answer 10

Adjacent systems

Question 11

To discover the requirements (scoped by the context diagram)

Answer 11

Trawling

Question 12

In order to divide the work, partition the context diagram into…

Answer 12

Business use cases (BUC)

Question 13

An amount of functionality needed by the work to respond to a business event

Answer 13

BUC

Question 14

something that happens to the business that makes it respond

Answer 14

Business event

Question 15

Name 3 trawling techniques

Answer 15

Apprenticing
Scenarios
Use case workshops

Question 16

T/F Modeling or Prototyping is useful at any time during the project

Answer 16

T

Question 17

T/F Scenarios become the foundation for requirements

Answer 17

T

Question 18

T/F Non-functional requirements might be reused if they are standards such as security, look and feel, etc

Answer 18

T

Question 19

Background reason for the requirement

Answer 19

Rationale

Question 20

Quantifies or measures the requirement, making it testable

Answer 20

Fit criterion

Question 21

The Volere Template is a guide for…

Answer 21

What to write

Question 22

The Snow Card is a guide for ____ to write a requirement at the atomic level

Answer 22

How

Question 23

Derived from the steps in a BUC

Answer 23

PUC (Product Use Case)

Question 24

Each requirement is derived from…

Answer 24

a PUC

Question 25

What is derived from a PUC?

Answer 25

Requirement

User story

Question 26

What is the purpose of the quality gateway?

Answer 26

Check each requirement before development begins and to keep “bad” requirements out of the specification

Question 27

What two people conduct the quality gateway?

Answer 27

Lead Requirements Engineer and Lead Tester

Question 28

Each requirement is checked for…

Answer 28

Completeness
Relevance
Testability
Coherency
Traceability

Question 29

Nothing missing

Answer 29

Complete

Question 30

No requirements in conflict

Answer 30

Consistent

Question 31

Most important are known to the developers

Answer 31

Prioritized

Question 32

When are traditional methods primarily used?

Answer 32

Outsourcing or when a full requirements specification is part of the project contract

Question 33

When the architecture is known, ____ may work best

Answer 33

Iterative