Can you create static requirements that apply to all projects?

Question

As a government tester I have 58 overarching requirements (or subset of) that all projects must meet and/or are scored against. I'll call them static requirements since they do not change and they do not behave like agile requirements that move along the development process. For example, Product A must do requirement X, Y and Z.  My vision is for a test case(s) to feed each requirement. Therefore, a status (pass/fail) of the requirement can be seen.  Requirements X, Y and Z will also apply to Product B, C D, etc. I need the ability to show if X,Y,Z is being met across products B, C, D, etc.

Tom Wolcott · Answer

I'm not sure I follow your answer.  And, I probably wasn't clear on my example.  I need a way to map requirements to test cases and then be able to pull a report that shows pass/failed requirements based on the pass/fail of the test cases.  The duplication of requirements might be burdensome with the 2500+ test cases across 35 projects and teh 58 recurring requirements. I need a way to filter by project or label and show failed requirements.

Alex_dddmmh · Answer

Hi, @Tom Wolcott; welcome to the community!

If I got your question right, perhaps the ability to clone the test case and requirements (in the form of Jira issues) from a "template" project to the Product projects using Automation would meet this scenario.

I might be oversimplifying, or I did not get your use case properly. If that is the case, you could give a bit more context on the test cases and requirements in Jira.

But I would say since requirements need to be tested in many products, having them "duplicated" for each product will ensure that the test was executed with the result (pass/fail), and to avoid manual work, a template structure would save a lot of time creating them.

I hope it helps. If this answer helps solve the problem, please come back and mark this answer as solved to help other community members with the same challenge. If not, you are welcome to share your solution as well.

Cheers,

Alex