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Testing Requirements Process

The document outlines a systematic approach to testing software requirements, emphasizing the importance of clarity, correctness, and testability. Key techniques include requirement reviews, use case evaluations, prototyping, and creating a requirement traceability matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage. Additionally, it highlights the need for stakeholder validation and consideration of negative testing scenarios to enhance requirement robustness.

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Testing Requirements Process

The document outlines a systematic approach to testing software requirements, emphasizing the importance of clarity, correctness, and testability. Key techniques include requirement reviews, use case evaluations, prototyping, and creating a requirement traceability matrix to ensure comprehensive test coverage. Additionally, it highlights the need for stakeholder validation and consideration of negative testing scenarios to enhance requirement robustness.

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Testing Requirements Process

how do you test your requirements

Testing requirements is a crucial early step in software testing to ensure that they are clear, correct, and testable.
Here’s how you can systematically test (or validate and verify) your requirements:

✅ 1. Requirement Review (Static Testing)


What to do: Read and analyze requirements without executing any code.

Goal: Find issues like ambiguity, incompleteness, contradictions, or untestable statements.

Method: Conduct reviews with stakeholders (Business Analysts, Developers, Testers).

Checklist:

Are all requirements clear and unambiguous?

Are they complete? (no missing conditions or features)

Are they consistent (no contradictions)?

Are they testable (can you write test cases for them)?

Are acceptance criteria defined?

✅ 2. Use Cases / User Stories Evaluation


What to do: Convert requirements into use cases or user stories with scenarios and acceptance criteria.

Goal: Ensure each requirement maps to real-world behavior and can be tested.

Example:

Requirement: "The user can reset their password."

Testable Scenario: “Given the user is on the login page, when they click ‘Forgot Password’, then they should
receive a reset email.”

✅ 3. Prototyping / Mockups
What to do: Use wireframes or mock UIs to visually validate requirements.

Goal: Validate user experience and functionality before development.

✅ 4. Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)


What to do: Map each requirement to its corresponding test cases.

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Goal: Ensure every requirement is covered by at least one test and no unnecessary functionality is tested.

Benefit: Helps in impact analysis during changes.

✅ 5. Write High-Level Test Scenarios


Draft early test cases or scenarios from the requirements.

This shows whether a requirement is practically testable.

If a test case can't be derived, the requirement may need refinement.

✅ 6. Negative Testing Thought Process


Think: What if something goes wrong? Does the requirement address edge cases?

Example: “What if the user enters the wrong OTP 3 times?”

✅ 7. Requirement Validation with Stakeholders


Ask stakeholders or end users to confirm that requirements are understood correctly.

You may do a walkthrough or formal inspection.

Summary: Key Techniques to Test Requirements


Technique Purpose

Requirement Reviews Find defects early

Use Case / Story Mapping Ensure completeness and behavior

Traceability Matrix Ensure test coverage

Prototyping Validate UI/UX and functionality

Early Test Case Design Ensure testability

Negative/Edge Case Analysis Ensure robustness of requirement

Let me know if you want templates for RTM or sample questions for requirement reviews.

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