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Requirements Engineering
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 modeling - data flow diagrams; statecharts; object-oriented approaches
- Covers a generic multi-layer requirements process
- Discusses the key elements of effective requirements management
- Includes a chapter written by one of the developers of rich traceability
- Introduces an overview of DOORS - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process
Additional material and links are available
"In recent years we have been finding ourselves with a shortage of engineers with good competence in requirements engineering. Perhaps this is in part because requirements management tool vendors have persuaded management that a glitzy tool will solve their requirements engineering problems. Of course, the tools only make it possible for engineers who understand requirements engineering to do a better job. This book goes a long way towards building a foundational set of skills in requirements engineering, so that today's powerful tools can be used sensibly. Of particular value is a recognition of the place software requirements have within the system context, and of ways for dealing with that sensitive connection. This is an important book. I think its particular value in industry will be to bring the requirements engineers and their internal customers to a practical common understanding of what can and should be achieved."
(Byron Purves, Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company)
- Explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems
- Describes the underlying representations used in system modeling - data flow diagrams; statecharts; object-oriented approaches
- Covers a generic multi-layer requirements process
- Discusses the key elements of effective requirements management
- Includes a chapter written by one of the developers of rich traceability
- Introduces an overview of DOORS - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process
Additional material and links are available
"In recent years we have been finding ourselves with a shortage of engineers with good competence in requirements engineering. Perhaps this is in part because requirements management tool vendors have persuaded management that a glitzy tool will solve their requirements engineering problems. Of course, the tools only make it possible for engineers who understand requirements engineering to do a better job. This book goes a long way towards building a foundational set of skills in requirements engineering, so that today's powerful tools can be used sensibly. Of particular value is a recognition of the place software requirements have within the system context, and of ways for dealing with that sensitive connection. This is an important book. I think its particular value in industry will be to bring the requirements engineers and their internal customers to a practical common understanding of what can and should be achieved."
(Byron Purves, Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company)
213 pages, Paperback
First published September 17, 2002
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December 15, 2019
This book is an absolute MUST for those who work on Systems Engineering and face the problems of capturing and structuring requirements in order to produce complete, consistent and easy to extend project specifications.
If you work already on the topic of writing requirements and have long year experience, this book will not add anything new to your knowledge. However, it will help you stop for a while in the “doing”, settle your concepts and reflect on your own ideas.
If you are a beginner I would suggest you to keep this book on the shelf for a while. You better learn the basics on a more academic book or you first apply the processes of your own company on a real project. As you grow on the topic and build up your own perceptions, questions will come up to you that will not be answered by the requirements guru in your office. That’s the right moment to grap this book.
The writing and the examples included are great. This book can be read starting by whatever chapter you like and jumping back and forth in whatever order.
I’ve got glad to see that the own ideas I was applying in my projects are 100% aligned with the author’s thoughts. Finally, it took me 4 years to complete this reading ... but this is another story ... too many other good things to read in between!. 5 stars.
If you work already on the topic of writing requirements and have long year experience, this book will not add anything new to your knowledge. However, it will help you stop for a while in the “doing”, settle your concepts and reflect on your own ideas.
If you are a beginner I would suggest you to keep this book on the shelf for a while. You better learn the basics on a more academic book or you first apply the processes of your own company on a real project. As you grow on the topic and build up your own perceptions, questions will come up to you that will not be answered by the requirements guru in your office. That’s the right moment to grap this book.
The writing and the examples included are great. This book can be read starting by whatever chapter you like and jumping back and forth in whatever order.
I’ve got glad to see that the own ideas I was applying in my projects are 100% aligned with the author’s thoughts. Finally, it took me 4 years to complete this reading ... but this is another story ... too many other good things to read in between!. 5 stars.
February 24, 2025
I had to read this book during the undergraduate course on requirements engineering. The publication provides a good overview of core aspects, such as different aspects on creating requirements documentation, checking and prioritization of requirements, difference between requirements in problem domain vs. solution domain, management of requirements. I did not like some of examples as they appeared to me artificial, but in general the book does its job good. If you have a good material as part of your coursework and just need to extend it - this book can be helpful. However, the structure of the book is not very clear and I do not recommend it as the single source on the topic.
January 8, 2011
Avery good book that gives well defined procedures to identify system's requirements. It handles both theoretical and practical aspects in a very nice and simple way
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