In requirements engineering, requirements must be validated to be complete,
consistent and unambiguous to ensure that the requirements represent a
complete appropriate description of the desired system.
The requirements validation process aims to detect any problems with the requirements
set before it is used as the start point for
system development.
In short, requirements validation is mostly concerned
with the question "Have we got the requirements right?".
While our
normal impulse is to keep progressing, it is very cost-efficient
to pause and complete requirements validation properly to
ensure that errors do not creep into the subsequent design.
Other topics in our resources on Systems Engineering related to Requirements Validation include: