Product Description

Written for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students.

Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, this book gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements.

- Explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems

- Describes the underlying representations used in system modelling and introduces the UML2

- Considers the relationship between requirements and modelling

- Covers a generic multi-layer requirements process

- Discusses the key elements of effective requirements management

- Explains the important concept of rich traceability

- Introduces an overview of DOORS Version 7 - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process

Additional material and links are available at: http://www.requirementsengineering.info

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #289584 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 198 pages

Book Info
Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, this book gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write structure requirements. Covers a generic multi-layer requirements process. Softcover.

Customer Reviews

Excellent !
This book presents in the space of some 200 pages, split into 9 chapters, a clear and concise introduction to a state-of-the-art approach to requirements engineering (RE). It starts out by introducing a generic RE process, which is then instatiated, later in the book, into concrete processes for generating stakeholder requirements (i.e. user requirements) and system requirements.

The beautiful thing aboout this generic process (and the concrete ones to follow it) is that V&V and change management are intrinsically part of it. The authors are particularly strong in their treatment of traceability. They have gone into an unusual depth. The book has some good advice on writing better requirements . In particular, I find the idea of requirements boilerplates (i.e. templates for each class of requirements) extremely useful. The book concludes with an introduction/demonstration of the DOORS RE tool, from Telelogic (the affiliation of two of the authors).

Overall, this is an excellent book that every requirements engineer, should have on their desk.