Requirements testing methodology

The company success under conditions of the competitive environment is determined by the ability to produce the competitive advantages. As a rule, the sources of the competitive advantages are the managerial skills and willing to innovations. Innovations in the IT companies are always concerned mainly with the processes. SKYROS corporation developed the requirements testing methodology, which presents the innovation in the software developing process. The methodology is based on the following materials: (1) CMMI
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-DEV model ver. 1.2. Process area ((Requirement Development)); (2) SEP Program in ((Requirements Development)) course materials by TEKAMA; (3) GOSTR ISO/MEK 9126 93. Applying this methodology made it possible to: (4) Reduce by 2.8 times the number of defects concerned with requirements; (5) Avoid the costs affixing the consequences of those requirements defects and to reduce time of software development; (6) Discover the risks concerned with the requirements realizability at the earlier steps and to minimize the influence of the risks; (7) Enhance the quality of the managerial information; (8) Formalize the interaction between test team and analyst team and to estimate their working efficiency.