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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: Test Suite Acceleration

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-06-14 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain
  • ✅ Requirements are testable and unambiguous
  • ✅ Requirement types are separated (Functional / Non-Functional / Constraints)
  • ✅ IDs are unique across FR-###, NFR-###, and C-### entries
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (no implementation details)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

as the evidence source for WHICH files/hazards are affected, keeping the spec itself outcome-focused (WHAT/WHY) per authorship guidelines.

necessarily names observable mechanisms (parallel workers, file-pinned distribution, collected node counts). These are treated as user-observable outcomes/constraints, not internal code structure, and are kept at the behavior level (e.g. "file-pinned distribution" as a constraint, not specific pytest flags inside requirement prose).

  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan.
  • The spec deliberately references architecture/test-suite-acceleration-plan.md
  • Minor tension on "no implementation details": a test-infrastructure mission