Systematically Pulverised EARS – Improvements in requirements authoring and presentation

Guidelines are a starting point for requirement writing, but are not sufficient to ensure sensible and well-crafted statements. We draw inspiration from New Zealand major infrastructure projects, a 1957 paper on legal documents, a viral social media maths puzzle, and the rules of the Road Runner cartoons, to propose syntax extensions, syntax highlighting, and a set of rules and suggestions around grammar and structure that can be used to write and present easily understood requirements.