Software requirements

What are the highlights?

• Two complete real-life requirements specifications (the traditional and the fast approach) and examples from many others.
• Explanations of both traditional and fast approaches, and discussions of their strengths and weaknesses in different project types (tailor-made, COTS, and product development).
• Real-life illustrations of all types of requirements, stakeholder analysis, cost/benefit and other techniques to ensure that business goals are met.
• Proven methods for dealing with difficult or complex requirements, such as specifying ease-of-use, or dealing with 200 reports that might be needed because they are in the old system.

Who is it for? Everyone involved in the software supply chain, from analysts and developers to end users, will learn new techniques, benefit from requirements written by other specialists, and discover successes and failures from other companies. Software suppliers will find ideas for helping customers and writing competitive proposals. Programmers and other developers will learn how to express requirements without specifying technical details, and how to reduce risks when developing a system. Students aspiring to IT careers will learn the theory and practice of requirements engineering, and get a strong foundation for case studies and projects.

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction and basic concepts
• Data requirement styles
• Functional requirement styles
• Functional details
• Special interfaces - combined styles
• Quality requirements
• Requirements in the product life cycle
• Elicitation
• Checking and validation
• Techniques at work
• Danish Shipyard
• Midland hospital
• West Zealand hospital
• Bruel & Kjaer
• Tax Payers' Association
• Exercises
• References
• Index