Software Requirements Engineering
Software Engineering Best Practices
2. Auflage Februar 1997
552 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This new edition describes current best practices in requirements
engineering with a focus primarily on software systems but also on
systems that may contain other elements such as hardware or people.
The text consists of original papers, written by experts in the
field, plus revisions of papers from the first edition. The book
begins with an introduction to current issues and the basic
terminology of the software requirements engineering process.
The text covers the five phases of software requirements
engineering -- elicitation, analysis, specification, verification,
and management -- that need to be performed to reduce the chance of
software failure. The chapters look at the science and discipline
that concern establishing and documenting software requirements.
The book covers the process through which developers' and users'
discover, review, articulate, and understand the users' needs and
the constraints on the software and development activity. It
analyzes the users' needs to arrive at a definition of their
software requirements. In addition, the papers examine software
requirements and the need to clearly document and precisely record
each requirement. It also looks at verification to ensure that the
software requirements specifications are in compliance with the
system requirements and conforms to document standards. The last
phase addressed by the book is software requirements management
including planning and controlling of all these activities.
Foreword.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.
Introduction to Tutorial: Software Requirements Engineering.
Chapter 1: Introduction, Issues, and Terminology.
Chapter 2: System and Software System Engineering.
Chapter 3: Software Requirements Analysis and Specifications.
Chapter 4: Software Requirements Methodologies and Tools.
Chapter 5: Requirements and Quality Management.
Chapter 6: Software System Engineering Process Models.
Appendix.
Author's Biographies.
California State University, Sacramento, California, United States
of America. He travels widely where he consults and lectures on
software requirements analysis, software engineering, project
management, software engineering standards, and software quality
assurance. He is a Visiting Researcher at the University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. As an expert in software project
management and requirements engineering, he is a consultant to many
companies and government agencies.
Thayer is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE
Software Engineering Standards Subcommittee. He is Chairperson for
the Working Group for a Standard for a Software Project Management
Plans. He is a Distinguished Visitor for the IEEE Computer
Society.
He is also an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) where he served on the AIAA
Technical Committee on Computer Systems, and he is a member of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also a registered
professional engineer.
He has a BSEE and an MS degree from the University of Illinois at
Urbana (1962) and a PhD from the University of California at Santa
Barbara (1979) all in Electrical Engineering.
He has edited and/or co-edited numerous tutorials for the IEEE
Computer Society Press: Software Engineering Project Management
(1988), System and Software Requirements Engineering (1990), and
Software Engineering--A European Prospective (1992). He is the
author of over 40 technical papers and reports on software project
management, software engineering, and software engineering
standards and is an invited speaker at many national and
international software engineering conferences and workshops.
Merlin Dorfman, PhD, is a Technical Consultant in the Space Systems
Product Center, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Company,
Sunnyvale, Calif. He specializes in systems engineering for
software-intensive systems (requirements analysis, top-level
architecture, and performance evaluation), in software process
improvement, and in algorithm developments for data processing
systems. He has performed concept exploration, system
implementation, and operations and maintenance of data systems and
has worked on proposal teams and company-funded technology projects
as well as on development contracts. He was in charge of the
development of the Automated Requirements Traceability System
(ARTS). He was the first chairman of Space Systems Division's
Software Engineering Process Group. He represented the Lockheed
Corporation on the Embedded Computer Software Committee of the
Aerospace Industries Association, and was Vice-Chairman of the
Committee.
He has a BS and MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a PhD from Stanford University, all in Aeronautics and
Astronautics. He is a registered Professional Engineer in the state
of California and Colorado and is a member of the Tau Beta Pi and
Sigma Gamma Tau honorary societies.
