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Requirements are Boring, and other Myths (EclipseCon 2013 Lightning talk)
- 1. Michael Jastram ... and Ido requirements my Blog & Newsletter: formalmind.com /blog Image (Post-it) courtesy of Master isolated images / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 2. Requirements are boring Image courtesyof graur codrin / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
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- 4. Do you remember… …and JUnit? ImagecourtesyofMasterisolatedimages/FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 5. Understand why requirementsmatter Measure whether requirements are realized Try to Automate as much as possible Image courtesy of photostock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 6. Joel Spolsky onrequirements (1) Images courtesy of sheelamohan, koratmember and Ambro / FreeDigitalPhotos.net Speedy, at Hasty Bananas Software, never writes specs Mr. Rogers, at The Well- Tempered Software Company, refuses to write code without spec v1.0 v2.0 Task: Word Processor Migration Feature Painless Functional Specifications: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000036.html Understand
- 7. Joel Spolsky onrequirements (2) Speedy, at Hasty Bananas Software, never writes specs Mrs. Rogers, at The Well- Tempered Software Company, refuses to write code without spec Understand Writes Converter 1.0 → 2.0 Duration: 2 weeks Customer Unhappy Writes Converter 2.0 → 1.0 Duration: 2 weeks Customer Satisfied Result: Mediocre Duration: 4 weeks
- 8. Joel Spolsky onrequirements (3) Speedy, at Hasty Bananas Software, never writes specs Mrs. Rogers, at The Well- Tempered Software Company, refuses to write code without spec Understand Writes Converter 1.0 → 2.0 Duration: 2 weeks Customer Unhappy Writes Converter 2.0 → 1.0 Duration: 2 weeks Customer Satisfied Result: Mediocre Duration: 4 weeks Writes Converter 1.0 → 2.0 Customer comments Writes Spec v.1 “When opening a file created with an older version of the product, the file is converted to the new format” Duration: 20 minutes Boss comments Writes Spec v.2 Duration: 20 minutes
- 9. Joel Spolsky onrequirements (4) Speedy, at Hasty Bananas Software, never writes specs Mrs. Rogers, at The Well- Tempered Software Company, refuses to write code without spec Understand Writes Converter 1.0 → 2.0 Customer comments Writes Spec v.1 “When opening a file created with an older version of the product, the file is converted to the new format” Duration: 20 minutes Boss comments Result: Great Duration: 3 weeks, 1 hour Writes Spec v.2 Duration: 20 minutes Writes Spec v.3 Duration: 20 minutes Implemen- tation Writes Converter 1.0 → 2.0 Duration: 2 weeks Customer Unhappy Writes Converter 2.0 → 1.0 Duration: 2 weeks Customer Satisfied Result: Mediocre Duration: 4 weeks
- 10. MeasureHow to writegood requirements (1) #1 Use the right approach #2 KISS Images courtesy of Master isolated images / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 11. MeasureHow to writegood requirements (3) #3 Requirements: What Specification: How #4 Define Scope! Images courtesy of renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 12. MeasureHow to writegood requirements (3) #5 Quantify if you can (If you can't know why) #6 Atomic and Identifiable Images courtesy of David Castillo Dominici / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 13. complete, clear, realizable, understandable, nocontradictions, no redundancy, traceability to source MeasureHow to write good requirements (4) Images courtesy of Master isolated images / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 14. Automate Automate through Modeling Imagecourtesy of nokhoog_buchachon / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 15. Automate Domain Properties Specification Requirements What? How theworld behaves Image courtesy of anankkml, Felixco, Inc and Baitong333 / FreeDigitalPhotos.net How? realize realize Automate through Modeling (2) realize
- 16. Automate Domain Properties Specification Requirements What? How theworld behaves How? Automate through Modeling (3) realize realize justify justify
- 17. Automate Domain Properties Specification Requirements Implementation What? How theworld behaves How? realize realize refine Automate through Modeling (4) justify justify
- 18. Automate Automate through Modeling(5) What models? - UML - SysML - B / Event-B - VDM - Design by Contract … and many more. Image courtesy of nokhoog_buchachon / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
- 19. What about … ●Requirements vs. Goals vs. Specification? ● Use Cases? ● Traceability? ● Testing? ...?
- 20. Visit my talk: 6June (Thu) 14:15 – 14:50 Room Diamant Thank you! ... and requirements are not boring! Image (Post-it) courtesy of Master isolated images / FreeDigitalPhotos.net