Requirements Engineering and Software Testing
Unlock successful software testing with requirements engineering processes, minimizing errors and optimizing your test efforts in 2025.
Requirements & Business Analysis
Eliciting, analysing, and improving requirements, acceptance criteria, and business expectations as a foundation for quality.
Foundations
Articles
Software testing in the future - Interview with Florian Fieber
In 2025, explore how future software testing trends are integrating development with evolving quality requirements and methodologies.
Sensory Impressions in Software Design
Enhance user experience in software design with sensory impressions and user-centered requirements engineering. Transform ideas into effective applications.
Requirements Engineering & Software Test
Enhance your software projects with quality requirements engineering and effective software testing to minimize errors.
Podcast Episodes
Lean Management: Why Problem Analysis Beats Quick Fixes
Rushing to fix a problem without understanding it creates the same problem again. Lean thinking breaks that cycle and reduces waste that most teams never even notice.
Developing security requirements as a team
Security requirements stay abstract until a team defines what the system actually protects. CIA goals and threat modeling make it tangible.
Legal pitfalls in software contracts
Two missing sentences in a software contract can drive a company into bankruptcy. Why agile software projects end up as contracts for work.
More quality in requirements with AI
Vague requirements are the most expensive problem in testing. How AI really helps when determining, formulating and checking requirements.
More quality through product discovery
Building software without asking users first often solves entirely the wrong problem. What product discovery means and why paper wins here.
Stop Coding, Start Asking Questions
Most software problems start as conversations that never happened. Collaborative modeling shows how to fix alignment before it hardens into broken code.
Analyzing and improving requirements
Requirements often have more gaps than expected, and DEFOSPAM uncovers them systematically. AI can support exactly this analysis step well.
Business analyst with an eye for quality
Anyone who writes requirements already thinks like a tester - or should. A look at a data warehouse project shows how this ensures quality at an early stage.
Quality from an architectural perspective
Separating functional and quality requirements: useful or misleading? What this distinction really means for architecture decisions.
Don't give me technicality
Scrum provides a process, but not a plan for good requirements. What happens before the backlog often determines product success more than any sprint.
Making user stories testable
User stories should be testable, everyone nods and hardly anyone knows how it works. What requirements engineering adds and which tests help.
Domain storytelling - Understanding the user
Throwing specifications over the fence belongs to the past in modern software projects. Domain storytelling unites users and developers.