Some of the documents used by a Business Analyst are:
- Project Vision Document
- Requirement Management Plan
- Business requirement documents
- Functional requirements documents
- Use Case Document
- User Stories
- Requirements Traceability matrix
- Test case document
- Project Vision Document
This is the document that is used to show the intention behind the development of the product and shows what business objectives will be achieved.
This document Includes:
- Stakeholders
- Product requirements
- Overview of the product
- Product Features
- Constraints
- Quality Attributes
- Requirement Management Plan
This is the document used to effectively manage the requirements of the project from the initial stage of the project to delivery of the project and this document is created during the initial phase of the project.
This document includes:
- The plan’s purpose
- Assigning of responsibilities
- Procedures, tools, and techniques used
- Requirements defining approach
- RTM Approach
- Workflows
- Managing Changes
- Business requirement documents
A business requirement document is the one that answers about what is Business solutions but no intended to answer on how to achieve those Business Solutions and so they are called Business requirement documents. It is used as a communication tool for stakeholders.
The document includes:
- Project Background
- Objectives
- Stakeholders
- Scope
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- Assumptions
- Constraints
- Risks
- Functional requirements documents
A functional requirements document is the one that describes the complete systems behavior and captures all the functionalities of the system. This document may be combined with BRD in some organizations.
The document Includes:
- Functional requirements
- UI requirements
- Dependencies
- Constraints
- Usability requirements
- Performance requirements
- Security requirements
- Requirements configuration
- Use Case Document
The use case document is the one that shows the interactions between the use cases and the actors.
This document Includes:
- Description
- Precondition
- Postcondition
- Actors
- Basic flow
- Alternate flow
- Exceptional flow
- Notes and Issues
- User Stories
In agile development the user story is a document describing the functionality of the system and is written from a user’s perspective like As a User, I want…, so that…….
- Requirements Traceability matrix
This is a document that shows the traceability of business requirements with the test cases and functional requirements to validate that the task is completed and validated.
- Test case document
A test case document is a document that contains steps on how to test the deliverable or the built code.
This document Includes:
- Test ID
- Test Scenario
- Prerequisite
- Test Data
- Test Steps
- Expected Results
- Actual results
- Remarks
- Test environment