A quality of service requirements list is useful for managing requirements. Using Visual Studio Team System, the business analyst can create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet containing a list of quality of service requirements. The quality of service requirements list is also useful for prioritizing, assigning, and tracking status of requirements. The list can be posted to the project portal for the entire team to view and work with.

Procedures:

• To create quality of service requirements

1. On the Visual Studio Team menu, click Team Explorer.
2. In Team Explorer, expand your team project folder, and then the Documents folder.
3. In the Requirements folder, double-click the QoS Requirements.xsl spreadsheet. The spreadsheet opens in Microsoft Excel.
4. Create a requirement in the blank row with the asterisk "*" by filling in the columns as follows.
5. Leave the Work Item ID blank. This is automatically generated.
6. Set the Work Item Type to Quality of Service Requirement.
7. Set the Quality of Service Type to the appropriate type of Load, Other, Performance, Platform, Security, or Stress.
8. Set the Rank to an appropriate value (1, 2, or 3).
9. Enter a Title.
10. Enter a description of the quality of service requirement in the Summary cell.Leave the Work Item ID blank. This is automatically generated.