by Andreas Birk | 28/02/2014 | agile, requirements, software engineering, tools
For the February 2014 update of our list of requirements management (RM) tools, my colleague Gerald Heller and I researched for other lists of requirements tools, in order to extend and complement our collection. In the following you find the results of our...
by Andreas Birk | 02/04/2013 | requirements, software engineering
When working with software requirements, it is sometimesĀ useful to reflect about what exactly software requirements are? As with most software engineering terms, also for software requirements there doesn’t exist a generally agreed-upon definition. So one can...
by Andreas Birk | 06/03/2013 | requirements, tools
Requirements Management (RM) is a very complex task that can only be accomplished with the support of suitable tools. Even small software projects need at least some manual tools like index cards or flip charts for supporting clarification and communication of...
by Andreas Birk | 06/12/2010 | literature, requirements, testing
Andreas Birk published the article “Pfade zum Requirements-basierten Testen” in issue 17 of the German SQ Magazin. He elaborated several paths how to achieve requirements-based testing. In summary: Test manager can benefit substantially from an established...
by Andreas Birk | 12/08/2010 | software engineering
Recently, Gerald Heller an I discussed about metrics used in agile development, agile testing metrics in particular. We found quite a number of relevant metrics and sought a way to structure them. Partly inspired by Brian Marick’s testing quadrants (see Lisa...