Discovering Requirements How to Specify

Essential reading before practitioners tackle a substantial requirements projectCovering everything practitioners need to know to create good requirements, this book uses worked examples in order to show readers how to build an understanding of various problems that may arise Includes difficult scenarios in each chapter, with carefully checked hints Offering an up-to-date and fresh approach, the material uses a set of simple, robust, and effective cognitive tools for building requirements to explain the right questions to ask while working on a project Author duo shares detailed answers to questions such as what needs to be achieved, what is involved, what does the customer want, what could go wrong, and how can a common goal be accomplishedIan Alexander consults and trains on requirements. He is the coauthor of several books, including Writing Better Requirements (ISBN tk) and Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases (ISBN tk), and has published many technical papers and popular articles, including regular contributions to the IEEE Software.Ljerka Beus-Dukic is a lecturer in software engineering and has taught requirements engineering for a number of years. She is the author of numerous technical papers and publications.

Ian Alexander consults and trains on requirements. He has co-authored 3 books including Writing Better Requirements (2002, Wiley), HTML 4 (1997, Addison-Wesley) and Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases (2004, Wiley), and has published many technical papers and popular articles, including regular contributions to the IEEE Software. He runs various requirements training courses for IET, JBA, DERA, QSS and UNICOM amongst others.

Ljerka Beus-Dukic is a lecturer in software engineering and has taught Requirements Engineering for a number of years. Prior to joining academia, she worked in industry as a software engineer developing software for real-time applications. Ljerka is the author of many technical papers and was a contributor for the book (Powell D. (Ed.), A Generic Fault-Tolerant Architecture for Real-Time Dependable Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). She is on the programme committee for a number of conferences including ICCBSS and Euromicro and also worked on the EU funded GUARDS project. She has co-authored around 30 publications.

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Discovering Requirement Elements
Introduction
Summary
Why You Should Read This Book
Simple but Not Easy
Discovered, not Found
A Softer Process, at First
More than a List of 'The System Shalls'
A Minimum of Process: the Discovery Cycle
Structure of this Book
Further Reading
Stakeholders
Summary
Discovering Stakeholders
Identifying Stakeholders
Managing Your Stakeholders
Validating Your List of Stakeholders
The Bare Minimum of Stakeholder Analysis
Next Steps: Requirements from Stakeholders
Exercises
Further Reading
Goals
Summary
Discovering Goals
Documenting Goals
Validating Goals
The Bare Minimum of Goals
Next Steps
Exercises
Further Reading
Context, Interfaces, Scope
Summary
Introduction
A 'Soft Systems' Approach for Ill-Defined Boundaries
Switching to a 'Hard Systems' Approach for Known Events
The Bare Minimum of Context
Next Steps
Exercises
Further Reading
Scenarios
Summary
Discovering Scenarios
Documenting Scenarios
Validating Scenarios
The Bare Minimum of Scenarios
Next Steps
Exercises
Further Reading
Qualities & Constraints
Summary
What are Qualities and Constraints?
Discovering Qualities and Constraints
Documenting Qualities and Constraints
Validating Qualities and Constraints
The Bare Minimum of Qualities and Constraints
Next Steps
Exercises
Further Reading
Rationale and Assumptions
Summary
The Value of Rationale
Discovering Rationale and Assumptions
Documenting Rationale
Validating Rationale and Assumptions
The Bare Minimum of Rationale and Assumptions
Next Steps
Exercises
Further Reading
Definitions
Summary
Discovering Definitions
The Bare Minimum of Definitions
Next Steps
Exercises
Further Reading
Measurements
Summary
Discovering and Documenting Acceptance Criteria
Validating Acceptance Criteria
Measuring Quality of Service (Qos)
Validating Qos Measures
The Bare Minimum of Measurement
Next Steps
Exercises
Further Reading
Priorities
Summary
Two Kinds of Priority
Input Priority
Output Priority
The Bare Minimum of Priorities
Next Steps
Exercises
Further Reading
Discovery Contexts
Requirements from Individuals
Summary
Introduction
Interviews
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