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REQUIREMENTS-ENGINEERING4 MIN READ

Quality Requirement Quick Cards

Recall prompts that turn quality adjectives into measurable requirements.

battlecard comparison Core prompt What four parts make a quality requirement testable? Quality plus proof. Quality, condition, threshold, and verification. Example: performance, 50,000 rows, 20 seconds for 95 percent of runs, measured in staging load test. When they say: Make it scalable They say: "The upload flow must be scalable." Scalable could mean capacity, throughput, concurrency, or growth path. Your line What load are we designing for in this release, and what measurement would show the flow still works? Do not accept scalable as a requirement. It is a placeholder for a target. The line asks for condition and threshold…

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