Requirements in Engineering Projects

1 Presentation of the book.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Objectives of the book.- 1.3 Structure of the book.- 1.4 Taxonomical issues.- 1.5 About the authors.- 2 Software engineering.- 2.1 Contributions for requirements engineering.- 2.2 Characterisation of the discipline.- 2.3 Software.- 2.3.1 Definition of software.- 2.3.2 Software systems and products.- 2.3.3 Domains.- 2.4 Models for the development process.- 2.4.1 Waterfall.- 2.4.2 Incremental and iterative.- 2.4.3 Transformational.- 2.4.4 Spiral.- 2.5 Summary.- Further reading.- Exercises.- 3 Requirements.- 3.1 Definition of requirement.- 3.2 Functional requirements.- 3.3 Non-functional requirements.- 3.3.1 Appearance.- 3.3.2 Usability.- 3.3.3 Performance.- 3.3.4 Operational.- 3.3.5 Maintenance and support.- 3.3.6 Security.- 3.3.7 Cultural and political.- 3.3.8 Legal.- 3.4 User and system requirements.- 3.5 Related concepts.- 3.6 Summary.- Further reading.- Exercises.- 4 Requirements engineering.- 4.1 Definition of requirements engineering.- 4.2 Activities.- 4.3 Challenges and problems.- 4.4 Summary.- Further reading.- Exercises.- 5 Requirements elicitation.- 5.1 Process.- 5.2 Identification of the stakeholders.- 5.3 Techniques.- 5.3.1 Individuals.- 5.3.2 Groups of persons.- 5.3.3 Artefacts.- 5.4 Summary.- Further reading.- Exercises.- 6 Requirements negotiation and prioritisation.- 6.1 Requirements negotiation.- 6.1.1 Negotiation process.- 6.1.2 Postures and strategies.- 6.2 Requirements prioritisation.- 6.2.1 Criteria and scales.- 6.2.2 Techniques.- 6.3 Summary.- Further reading.- Exercises.- 7 Writing in a natural language.- 7.1 Guidelines for writing.- 7.1.1 Issues to consider.- 7.1.2 Issues to avoid.- 7.2 Template for the requirements document.- 7.3 Ambiguity.- 7.4 Summary.- Further reading.- Exercises.- 8 Modelling.- 8.1 Definition of model.- 8.2 Model dimensions.- 8.3 Modelling ontology.- 8.3.1 System and model.- 8.3.2 Specification.- 8.3.3 Language.- 8.3.4 Mental models.- 8.3.5 Model of computation.- 8.3.6 Reverse engineering perspective.- 8.3.7 Analogies.- 8.4 Models for requirements.- 8.4.1 Domain models.- 8.4.2 Use case models.- 8.4.3 Class models.- 8.4.4 Sequence models.- 8.4.5 State models.- 8.4.6 Activity models.- 8.5 Summary.- Further reading.- Exercises.- Glossary.- References.- Index.