Requirements Modeling and Testing Quiz

Study Notes

Requirements Engineering

Transforming a requirements model into natural language text is called paraphrasing.

Requirements Validation and Testing

The activity of inventing tests for requirements is called requirements testing.
Requirements validation should check the near final draft of the requirements.
Requirements validation is a major concern in view of error diversity, frequency, criticality, and cost.
The 5 different validation techniques are:
- Reviews and inspections
- Prototyping
- Model validation
- Testing
- Formal checking

Checklists

A list of generic questions designed to detect typical defects found in a requirements document is known as a defect-driven checklist.

RE Tools

RE tools can support the following activities:
- Elicitation (e.g., analysis of textual artifacts)
- Documentation (generating and editing requirements work products)
- Modeling (primarily model editors)
- Management (Store and retrieve, prioritize, trace,...)
- Validation (finding quality problems, simulators, model checkers,...)
RE tools can have different support levels, including:
- General purpose
- Database-level
- Language & method-based
An RE tool does not automatically improve productivity.

RE Standards

An RE standard contains the "standard way" of doing RE, processes/products involved in RE, and characteristics/attributes of well-formed requirements.
The IREB CPRE (Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering - foundation level) is a de facto basic RE BoK, consisting of a syllabus, a handbook, and a glossary.

Ethical Principles

Ethical principles in RE include:
- No harm
- For the good
- Fairness
- Autonomy
- Transparency

AI in RE

AI can do the following for RE:
- Primary means: processing natural language text with machine learning to find and classify, extract, and find smells in requirements.
- Recommend: further stakeholders/stakeholder roles, configure requirements in a product line, etc.
- Analyze: automated impact analysis when requirements change.
- Generate: propose requirements, acceptance criteria, and solutions for a given problem.

Description

Test your knowledge on transforming requirements models into natural language text and inventing tests for requirements. This quiz covers topics such as requirements review, prototyping, paraphrasing, and requirements testing.