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Software Requirements Gathering Techniques

• 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

• Software requirements: Why the term 'nonfunctional requirements' misleads

  Requirements expert Robin Goldsmith explores the problems with common nonfunctional requirements scenarios and offers more useful alternatives.  Continue Reading

• Using a nonfunctional requirements template, plus examples

  Requirements expert Robin Goldsmith explains how and why to use a nonfunctional requirements template.  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

• Mobile application requirements: Same process, new challenges

  Software testing and development expert Matt Heusser explains how mobile software has changed mobile application requirements and what to do about it.  Continue Reading

• Agile process: Structured conversations build business-ready software

  Teams committed to the Agile process are good at delivering working software. But what good is that if the software doesn't meet business needs?  Continue Reading

• Software lifecycle: Defining just-in-time requirements

  SearchSoftwareQuality expert Matt Heusser explains how to increase software lifecycle efficiency by defining the right requirements just in time.  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

• Acceptance test-driven development explained

  Acceptance test driven development brings developers, testers and business together to sort out bugs before coding starts, according to a new book.  Continue Reading

• Requirements shifting with enterprization of mobile apps

  The enterprization of mobile apps is affecting design, performance and security requirements. Find out how to manage these requirement changes.  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

• Optimizing requirements management: Working with Agile and Waterfall

  Learn what can teams do to optimize requirements management when working within both Agile and Waterfall.  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