Rethink Requirements with QVscribe
Automatically analyze requirements to find ambiguities and inconsistencies. Then easily generate actionable reports, assisting you to confidently move on to the next phase of your requirements engineering workflow.
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Save Time
Streamline your analysis workflow and create detailed reports in seconds (not hours)
Work Smarter
Automate the tedious, error-prone tasks in the review and analysis of requirements
Build Confidently
Avoid costly rework later by identifying critical errors in the requirements stage
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Intelligent Automation
QVscribe harnesses Natural Language Processing to automatically apply the best requirements analysis tactics by leading industry experts. Automated requirements analysis empowers engineering teams to build faster by identifying errors where they matter most - in the requirements.
QVscribe is a lightweight pragmatic solution that can drive requirements quality improvement.
- Yoga Jeppu, Engineer, Honeywell Technology Solutions
Quality Analysis
Your assistant for rapidly reviewing requirements in accordance with best practices. QVscribe’s analysis empowers teams with a foundation for confident & on-time project development.
Imperatives
QVscribe checks each requirement for missing or improper use of imperatives, helping you ensure every requirement has a single correct and actionable imperative.
Optional Language
Catch optional language that indicates a constraint “can” or “should” be implemented. Removing unintended optional language improves implementation scope, reducing risk and increasing control.
Weak, Vague, and Subjective Words
Detect slang and ambiguities using our library of vague words. Are there certain words you believe should never make it into a requirements document? Easily enforce clarity for you and your team by configuring the library to include problematic wording for detection.
Data-driven Quality Indicators
QVscribe’s default quality analysis checks for 7 quality indicators: imperatives, negative imperatives, vague wording, optional language, continuances, directives, and universal quantifiers. Each analyzed requirement is given a quality score, identifying the requirements to focus on improving first.
Quality Warnings
Some rules are made to be broken. QVscribe warns you of common quality issues that may be intentional without impacting the requirement's score – giving you the flexibility to determine which requirements truly need attention.
Universal Quantifiers
Words or phrases that generalize a quantity or quality should be used carefully to improve the verifiability of a requirement. QVscribe flags universal quantifiers without impacting the quality score as a warning that the requirement may be unverifiable or untestable unless restated.
Passive Voice
The use of passive voice often introduces two sources of errors. First, passive verbs such as "enhanced" and "strengthened" are notoriously ambiguous. Second, passive voice often describes a constraint on implementation rather than a proper requirement. QVscribe flags passive voice to help ensure you're not describing what must be done to the system, but rather what needs to be done by the system.
Incomplete Sentences
Incomplete sentences can cause a lot of trouble in requirements when critical details of who must do something or what must be done is missing. QVscribe shows a warning when it detects incomplete sentences – bringing attention to the sentences that need more information without affecting the quality score of the requirement.
Unit & Term Consistency
Highlighting Potentially Inconsistent Units & Terminology
Using both imperial and metric systems of units within one document has resulted in some of the most catastrophic project failures ever seen. QVscribe rapidly detects and displays units and terminology to help you verify consistency throughout all requirements. Ensuring that no terminology or units conflicts lead to delays or rework.
Did you know?
According to NASA, the cost to fix errors rises exponentially with each successive phase of the project life-cycle, resulting in up to a 1,000 cost premium for addressing requirement errors at the operations stage. JM Stecklein, Error Cost Escalation Through the Project Life Cycle, NASA, 2004
Fast, Efficient
Requirements Similarity Analysis
Eliminate Redundant and Contradictory Requirements.
Ensuring no two requirements are redundant or contradictory used to entail significant manual effort and cross-checking. Now, QVscribe automatically analyzes each requirement against all others to assess similarity — helping you spot requirements that either need to be updated or deleted.
Enterprise & Team Configurations
Enterprise teams require the very best tools available, and with every new release, QVscribe delivers new capabilities that enhance collaboration and management throughout the requirements engineering process.
Centralized Analysis Configurations
User Management
Flexible Licensing
Did you know?
The Project Management Institute’s 2014 Pulse of the Profession found that only 47% of organizations have a formal process to validate requirements, and that 51% of At a Glance Requirement Analysis project dollars are wasted due to poor requirements.
PMI - Pulse of the Profession, Project Management Institute, 2014
At a Glance
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Analysis Type
Natural Language Processing of requirements for quality and consistency analyses.
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Quality Indicators & Warnings
- Imperatives
- Negative Imperatives
- Optional Words
- Vague Language
- Continuances
- Directives
- Universal Quantifiers
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Terminology & Unit Consistency Analysis
Detection, enumeration, and classification of all measurement units and noun phrases to help verify their correct use and location in the requirements.
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Requirements Similarity Analysis
Assessment of requirements similarity to assist in eliminating redundant or contradictory requirements.
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Configurable Analysis Reports
Configurable PDF report generation, ready for sharing and printing. Reports can include a full quality analysis, document summary, unit consistency results, analysis configurations, and recommendations.
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Enterprise & Team Customizations
Centrally managed group-specific analysis configurations and trigger words for consistent requirements reviews across teams.
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Requirements Exporting
Export requirements from Word documents into CSV formats compatible with management software.
Generate Your Report
Export your analysis to a configurable PDF report. Or your favourite requirement management tool.
Newest Capabilities in QVscribe 2.0
- Updated quality analysis for best practice compliance
- Terminology and unit consistency analysis
- Requirements similarity analysis
- Universal quantifier warnings
- Requirements export from Word documents
- Enterprise and team capabilities
- Configurable PDF reports
Integrations
QVscribe is seamlessly integrated into the following requirements management tools.
Microsoft Excel
Quality analysis integrated right into your current Excel workflow.
Microsoft Word
Quality analysis integrated right into your current Word workflow.
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