140 words – ALM Analytics and reports – Optimal Requirements vs. Test creation trend

This report usually generated from ALM system that contains requirements management and test management module.

















1. Requirements definition - at the beginning of the application lifecycle, the requirements creation trend is higher, later on used by development team and QA team.
QA starts writing his test plan, but in lower rate.
2. End of Requirements definition - QA continues writing test cases.
3. Equation point 1- where number of tests equal to number of requirements.
4. Start QA cycles - start running tests in QA cycles. At this phase, we usually have more test cases than requirements to assure requirements coverage.
5. Next release starts - product manager submits requirements for next release.
6. Equation point 2 - Number of requirements is equal to number of test cases. The same application lifecycle occurs again.