a5c-ai Requirements Quality Analyzer
Overview
The Requirements Quality Analyzer skill provides specialized capabilities for analyzing and scoring requirements quality against industry standards including BABOK (Business Analysis Body of Knowledge) and IEEE 29148 (Requirements Engineering). This skill enables automated validation, quality scoring, and improvement recommendations for requirements documentation.
Capabilities
INVEST Criteria Validation
- Validate requirements against INVEST criteria (Independent, Negotiable, Valuable, Estimable, Small, Testable)
- Score each criterion on a standardized scale
- Generate specific feedback for non-compliant requirements
SMART Criteria Assessment
- Assess requirements for SMART criteria compliance (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound)
- Identify gaps in requirement specificity
- Recommend improvements for vague or incomplete requirements
Language Quality Analysis
- Detect ambiguous language patterns (e.g., "may", "should", "appropriate")
- Identify passive voice usage that obscures accountability
- Flag jargon and undefined acronyms
- Check for consistent terminology usage
Acceptance Criteria Validation
- Identify incomplete or missing acceptance criteria
- Validate Given-When-Then format compliance
- Check for testability of acceptance criteria
- Ensure acceptance criteria align with requirement intent
Quality Scoring
- Calculate completeness scores based on required fields
- Assess consistency across related requirements
- Evaluate testability based on measurable outcomes
- Generate composite quality scores
Duplicate and Conflict Detection
- Flag duplicate or near-duplicate requirements
- Identify conflicting requirements within the same scope
- Detect overlapping requirements across features
- Highlight dependency conflicts
Improvement Recommendations
- Generate prioritized improvement recommendations
- Provide rewrite suggestions for low-quality requirements
- Create quality improvement action plans
- Track quality improvement over time
Usage
Basic Quality Analysis
Analyze the following requirements for quality:
[Requirements list]
Apply BABOK and IEEE 29148 standards to score each requirement.
INVEST Validation
Validate these user stories against INVEST criteria:
[User stories]
Provide a detailed score for each criterion and improvement suggestions.
Comprehensive Quality Report
Generate a comprehensive quality report for this BRD:
[BRD content]
Include quality scores, issues identified, and prioritized recommendations.
Process Integration
This skill integrates with the following business analysis processes:
- requirements-elicitation-workshop.js - Quality validation during elicitation
- brd-creation.js - Quality assurance for BRD content
- user-story-development.js - INVEST validation for user stories
- requirements-traceability.js - Quality tracking across requirement lifecycle
Dependencies
- NLP capabilities for ambiguity detection
- BABOK templates and standards reference
- IEEE 29148 requirements engineering standards
- Quality scoring algorithms
Quality Standards Reference
BABOK Knowledge Areas
- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
- Elicitation and Collaboration
- Requirements Life Cycle Management
- Strategy Analysis
- Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
- Solution Evaluation
IEEE 29148 Requirements Characteristics
- Necessary
- Implementation-free
- Unambiguous
- Consistent
- Complete
- Singular
- Feasible
- Traceable
- Verifiable