requirements-validation-process

Purpose

Validate requirements through structured reviews, inspections, prototyping, and conceptual testing before they are baselined. This is the quality gate between "requirements written" and "development starts."

The cost of fixing a requirements defect multiplies 10-100x as it progresses from requirements to design to code to testing to production. Validation catches defects at the cheapest point.

Key Concepts

The V-Model

Requirements validation sits at the left side of the V-model: