Agile Requirements Verification Framework

Verification activities are necessary to ensure that the requirements are specified in a correct way. However, every work that handles requirement verification until now has focused on traditional up-front requirements. Agile or just-in-time requirements are by definition incomplete, not specific and might be ambiguous when initially specified, indicating a different notion of 'correctness'. We analyze how early verification of agile requirements should be performed, based on literature of traditional and agile requirements. This leads to an agile verification framework, instantiated for the specific requirement types of feature requests in open source projects and user stories in agile projects. We have qualitatively validated our framework for feature requests with practitioners from the Dutch agile community, receiving overall positive feedback. The data sets, check list and interview questions (in Dutch) can be found on-line for reference