Section 10 - Establishing requirements (10%)

Question 1

What are the 5 elements of the requirements engineering framework?

Answer 1

• Elicitation
• Analysis: how it fits together, what is important?
• Validation: definitely what we want?
• Documentation
• Management: change request, how to know when completed

Question 2

What are the actors in requirement engineering?

Answer 2

• Business representatives: SMEs, sponsor
• Project team: PM, devs, testers

Question 3

What are the 2 types of elicitation?

Answer 3

• Explicit: things we know we know, may already be documented, how things are already done
• Tacit: things we don’t know we know, how to know when something happens

Question 4

What does it mean to analyse requirements?

Answer 4

The process of looking through requirements looking for particular attributes that allow some to be changed/removed/split up etc

Question 5

What are you looking for when analysing requirements?

Answer 5

• Overlaps
• Duplicates
• Statements of multiple requirements
• Relevance to objectives
• Feasibility
• Conflicting requirements
• Statements of solution

Question 6

What 6 things should a story be?

Answer 6

• Independent: not dependent on another story
• Negotiable
• Valuable
• Estimable
• Small
• Testable

Question 7

How should requirements be prioritised?

Answer 7

MoSCoW
Must, Should, Could, Want
Must + Should are mandatory to be able to meet the business case