Requirements Validation

Introduction to Requirements Validation

• What are requirements?
• Why do we validate requirements?
• How do we validate requirements?
• When should requirements be validated?
• Who validates requirements?

Validating and Testing Requirements

• What does it mean to validate requirements?
  • Conducting effective requirements reviews.
    • Review guidelines.
    • Examine a sample review Invitation and results form.
    • Review question checklists.
    • How do reviews improve future projects? 
    • Workshop: validate requirements using a formal review
  • Introduction to usability testing.
  • Effective user acceptance testing (UAT).
  • Post implementation user assessment.
• How to correct problems that are discovered during requirements validation?
  • Use a consistent defect reporting procedure.
  • Track defect types to improve requirements on future projects.
  • Assess defect type, severity, and status.

Usability Testing

• Learn the principles of usability.
• Learn how usability testing differs from traditional testing.
• Discuss methods of usability testing.
• Learn to use requirements to design usability tests.
• Workshop: conduct a usability test.

Working with IT Stakeholders

• Communicating with IT development stakeholders.
• Verifying requirements or specification.
• Unit testing.
• Integration testing.
• Systems testing.
• Testing business requirements.
• Testing functional requirements.
• Testing technical requirements.
• Regression testing - re-testing after a change.
• Testing environments.
• Common IT testing methods.
  • White box and black box testing.
  • Positive and negative testing.
  • Choosing data values for testing.
• Working with QA stakeholders.
  • Software quality assurance (SQA) planning and structure.
  • Utilizing SQA personnel throughout the SDLC.

Documenting Requirements Validation Deliverables

• Designing a requirements validation plan
  • IEEE testing templates.
  • What is a test design, test case, test procedure?
  • Identifying tests from requirements documentation.
  • Using use case descriptions to develop testing procedures.
  • Tracking test cases.
• Workshop: validating requirements using test cases.
• Tracing test cases to requirements - cross checking the solution.
• Designing a requirements validation plan.
  • Planning considerations:
    • Who will validate requirements?
    • How will this be accomplished?
    • Where are the highest risks?
    • Where will tests be conducted?
    • Who will conduct testing?
    • Who will review test results?
    • What test data will be used?

Solution Assessment and Validation BABOK Knowledge Area

• Understanding the tasks in the IIBA BABOK - Solution Assessment and Validation.
  • Develop alternate solutions.
  • Ensure the usability of the solution.
  • Support the QA process.
  • Support the implementation/deployment of the solution.
  • Communicate the solution impacts.

Course Length:
2 days

PDUs:
Earn 14 IIBA CDUs

Public Pricing:
$1395.00 per student