Testing Clichés Part III: “We can’t test those requirements”

by TestEye on April 11, 2010

It is good to strive for better requirements by critical analysis (and looking for what’s missing), but there is a danger in complaining about untestable requirements.
If those vague requirements are changed (made too specific) or removed, the words in the requirements document have less meaning, and less chance of guiding towards great software.

And there are no such things as untestable requirements. There are requirements that can’t be verified, that can’t get a true/false stamp, but you can definitely test the software and look for things that don’t match the essence of the vagueness.

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