speckit-checklist

To convert feature requirements into a validation checklist, provide your specifications to generate categorized items targeting completeness, clarity, consistency, coverage, and non-functional requirements. Each item includes a sequential CHK ID and references the source spec section for traceability.

A requirements quality checklist acts as unit tests for your specifications, validating feature completeness and consistency before development. You need one to systematically verify traceability and ensure all non-functional considerations and acceptance criteria are explicitly documented.

You maintain an requirements checklist through append-only growth, adding new items to existing lists with incremental CHK IDs. This ensures continuous traceability by referencing original spec sections like [Spec §FR-1] without disrupting previously validated checklist items.

Yes, checklist generation explicitly supports traceability for non-functional requirements by creating categorized validation items. Each item directly references the source specification section, ensuring every non-functional consideration is focally testable and traceable.

The best way to ensure specification coverage is complete is to generate a categorized checklist validating requirements across completeness, clarity, consistency, and coverage dimensions. This structured approach highlights gaps by making each acceptance criterion focally testable against the source spec.