6.3.1 Properties of a High Quality Informal Requirements Document
Richard E. Schneider, Dennis M. Buede · INCOSE International Symposium · 2000
Abstract One way to improve the quality of a system level informal requirements document is to check it for goodness properties and fix any checking errors. Several lists of goodness properties are available but they differ by author. And a sound basis for selecting goodness properties is seldom provided. We propose a set of goodness properties which were developed from a larger list of properties using selection criteria as this sound basis. In previous work we established a set of criteria for selecting which properties represent high quality in an informal requirements document. This paper extends that work by applying the selection criteria to a large set of candidate properties. Through a process of refining, combining, splitting, and discarding of candidate properties using the selection criteria, we arrived at the limited set of high quality properties. This paper describes that process.