Tips

Tips

Gathering Software Requirements Use Cases

• Use story mapping for more customer-focused apps

  Story mapping can replace requirements gathering and shows developers what is needed to solve business problems in end users' workflows.  Continue Reading

• CI success depends on quality acceptance criteria

  Successful continuous integration requires testable acceptance criteria that help to guide developers.  Continue Reading

• Avoiding too many user stories in software development

  In software development today, the overuse of user stories has become a common waste of time and resources.  Continue Reading

• Forrester VP says enterprise mobile applications miss the mark

  Building an enterprise mobile application may not be the right focus for today's enterprise application development teams.  Continue Reading

• A five-step plan to capturing better application requirements

  Defining software application requirements at a project's outset is still an issue. Learn how to build better application requirements.  Continue Reading

• Health care applications: Is Agile compatible with FDA regulations?

  Using the following strategies, FDA regulations can be assimilated into an Agile environment to meet the compliance needs of health care applications.  Continue Reading

• Managing requirements as production applications scale

  Learn how to go about managing requirements as production applications scale.  Continue Reading

• Requirements review in Agile: Ensuring consistency and spotting defects

  Agile testing teams can improve their requirements review process by ensuring consistency, carefully determining testability and spotting missing connections.  Continue Reading

• Just-in-time requirements gathering with iterative development

  Consultant Howard Deiner shows us how iterative development allows software teams to get just-in-time requirements, preventing wasted time on over-analysis and allowing for mid-course corrections along the way.  Continue Reading

• Contextual inquiry techniques in requirements gathering

  Software consultant Nari Kannan writes about typical problems with requirements gathering and provides an outline of contextual inquiry techniques.  Continue Reading

• Product management: Using social media for requirements gathering

  In this tip, requirements expert Scott Sehlhorst explores the many uses of social media and social networks for improving product management.  Continue Reading

• Estimation approaches in Agile development

  In Agile environments, estimating is done using "story points." In this tip, SSQ contributor Chris McMahon describes how story points are used on Agile teams and how story size, velocity and iterations can play a part in estimating Agile efforts.  Continue Reading

• Getting on the same page: How testers can help clarify requirements

  Gathering accurate requirements is one of the biggest challenges of software development. There can be a big disconnect between what the users want and the software that gets developed. In this tip, Agile expert Lisa Crispin gives some helpful ...  Continue Reading

• Requirements tips for data-centric projects

  Gathering requirements for data-centric projects presents a challenge. Business users may have trouble articulating the type of data needed to build a proper system and asking for changes late in the game can cause major project delays. In this tip,...  Continue Reading

• The perfect storm: Multiple mishaps lead to disaster

  A series of mistakes, due to a series of software errors and lapses in judgment, result in a situation that could mean the difference between life and death for customers. Find out lessons that test expert Chris McMahon learned from experiencing a ...  Continue Reading