Book: Requirements Engineering
by Dr Jeremy Dick, Prof Elizabeth Hull & Prof Ken Jackson
Buy now: All books purchased via the Telelogic website receive a 20% discount on RRP £35. To claim your discount, please email Sally Tickner, Springer-Verlag London Limited, sally@svl.co.uk. Details will be sent to you by return. Please quote: Book Title: Requirements Engineering Requirements Engineering is common sense, but it is perceived to be difficult and is not well understood. For these reasons it is generally not very well done. The ever-increasing pressures on an organisation are often given as the main reasons for not introducing a more disciplined approach to requirements engineering. However, it is these very pressures that make it even more important for the requirements engineer to help the organisation do the job properly. Systems engineering is critical in today's industry and requirements engineering is an important aspect of that overall process. A good process is key to requirements engineering - it determines how efficiently and rapidly products can be generated. This is particularly important in a global competitive market where the 'time to market' and meeting stakeholder requirements are the key success factors. Requirements engineering is also about management and hence issues in relation to requirements and management blend to show how requirements can be used to manage systems development. The book is concerned with engineering requirements and how systems engineers may be helped to create better requirements. A generic process is presented which assists the reader in gaining a good understanding of the essence of requirements engineering. The process is then instantiated for the problem and solution domains of development. The book also addresses the concept of system modelling and presents various techniques and methods which are widely used. An important feature of the book is the presentation of approaches to traceability, the way in which it is captured and metrics which can be derived from traceability. Finally the book presents an overview of DOORS which is a tool for requirements management. A case study is used to illustrate the process presented in the book and the features of the tool. This book should be read by those systems and requirements engineers in industry, who, as practitioners, are keen to gain knowledge of using requirements engineering for system development. The book will also be of interest to final year undergraduate students in Computer Science, Software Engineering and Systems Engineering studying a course in Requirements Engineering and also to postgraduate research students in Computer Science or and other flavours of Engineering. The approach taken in the book is based on current research in Requirements Engineering, however it has not only taken the academic view but has also built substantially on current experience of working in industry to enable system engineers to manage requirements (and projects) more successfully. It provides a snapshot, in this rapidly evolving subject, of what we see as best practice in Requirements Engineering today. |
