Group Requirements Inspection Carefully Read Wiegers Ch. 14

Perform a Team Inspection See p 238 Wiegers –all team members participate in the inspection –follow the process (p 240) assign roles prepare the materials plan the meetings use entry/exit criteria

The Technical Review Process Pre-Review Activities Review Meeting Activities Post-Review Activities

Pre-Review Activities (Production team) Prepare and make available the artifact to be reviewed –The design document (milestone 3 deliverable) –Supporting material (milestone 1& 2 deliverables) Call the meeting –Participants –Time and place –Identification of artifact to be reviewed –Agenda

Pre-Review Activities (Review team) Inspect the artifact and note comments. Identify –Standards compliance e.g., document structure (incl. cross-references, sign-offs etc.), possibility of validation,… –Presentation quality e.g., readability, clarity of information, well-definedness, completeness… –Contents quality Conformance – does it satisfy all the requirements specifications Structure – is it technically satisfactory

Pre-Review Activities (Review team) Prioritize the comments –High-impact –Low-impact Identify action items Write it up Deliver it to the reviewed team –(to the instructor)

Defect report: For each defect Defect ID Description Procedure to reproduce Platform info Date identified By whom Severity Phase Date corrected By whom Effort (in staff hours) Work product corrected Resolution status Notes

Review Meeting Activities Review the artifact, not the team Set an agenda, and maintain it Limit debate and rebuttal Identify problems, defer problem resolution Use a recorder

Review Meeting Activities

Processing the meeting

Post-Review Activities Analyze the comments Determine course of action (action items) … and take it File –the review report, –the minutes from the meeting(s), –the action items –their follow-up

Requirements validation: Define validation checklists: Are the requirements Complete? Consistent? Comprehensible? Precise? Traceable? Checkable? According to standards?

Work Product Written document this Friday (26 May) –main body introduction to the inspection document –purpose, roles, dates high level explanation of what happened –abstract the results and plans for remedies –include the defect reports »and notes that led to them in appendix (ref’d) appendices with meeting announcements, plan, etc.

Preliminary Test Document Due with final documents Refer to Wiegers ch 14 –conceptual test cases for each functional requirement think: –boundaries –zeroes –exceptions