Requirements Engineering
From System Goals to UML Models to Software Specifications
1. Edition January 2009
712 Pages, Softcover
Textbook
Short Description
This book presents a disciplined approach to the engineering of high-quality requirements. The approach covers the entire requirements lifecycle and integrates state-of-the-art techniques for requirements elicitation, evaluation, specification, analysis, and evolution. Modeling plays a central role in this approach. Rich, requirements-specific models provide a common interface to the various RE activities. Such models capture the multiple facets of the system-as-is and the system-to-be, comprising both software and environment components. The book puts a strong emphasis on systematic, replicable techniques for requirements engineering.
Essential comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of requirements engineering
Requirements engineering (RE) deals with the variety of prerequisites that must be met by a software system within an organization in order for that system to produce stellar results. With that explanation in mind, this must-have book presents a disciplined approach to the engineering of high-quality requirements. Serving as a helpful introduction to the fundamental concepts and principles of requirements engineering, this guide offers a comprehensive review of the aim, scope, and role of requirements engineering as well as best practices and flaws to avoid.
* Shares state-of-the-art techniques for domain analysis, requirements elicitation, risk analysis, conflict management, and more
* Features in-depth treatment of system modeling in the specific context of engineering requirements
* Presents various forms of reasoning about models for requirements quality assurance
* Discusses the transitions from requirements to software specifications to software architecture
In addition, case studies are included that complement the many examples provided in the book in order to show you how the described method and techniques are applied in practical situations.
Preface
Part 1: Fundamentals of Requirements Engineering
Chapter 1 Setting the Scene
Chapter 2 Domain Analysis and Requirements Elicitation
Chapter 3 Requirements Evaluation
Chapter 4 Requirements Specification and Documentation
Chapter 5 Requirements Quality Assurance
Chapter 6 Requirements Evolution
Chapter 7 Goal-Orientation in Requirements Engineering
Part 2: Building System Models for Requirements Engineering
Chapter 8 Modeling System Objectives with Goal Diagrams
Chapter 9 Anticipating What Could Go Wrong: Risk Analysis on Goal Models
Chapter 10 Modeling Conceptual Objects with Class Diagrams
Chapter 11 Modeling System Agents and Responsibilities
Chapter 12 Modeling System Operations
Chapter 13 Modeling System Behaviors
Chapter 14 Integrating Multiple System Views
Chapter 15 A Goal-Oriented Model Building Method in Action
Part 3: Reasoning About System Models
Chapter 16 Semi-Formal Reasoning for Model Analysis and Exploitation
Chapter 17 Formal Specification of System Models
Chapter 18 Formal Reasoning for Specification Construction and Analysis
Bibliography
Appendix: Requirements Document Generated from a Goal-Oriented Model
Index
