- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (12 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201360470
- ISBN-13: 978-0201360479
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 17.8 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,860,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The message of this book is simple. Software development should be done quickly and effectively. Systems that take years to develop can often end up out of synch. with their users' evolving requirements and business objectives by the time they are delivered. Requirements Engineering and Rapid Development shows how to solve the problem by using a systematic approach to requirements gathering and business modelling.
This book is packed full of practical advice and tried and tested techniques for object modelling, illustrating how these techniques may be applied not only to models of computer systems, but to models of the world in which they have to operate. Ian Graham provides advice on how to run requirements workshops and presents a standard structure for requirements gathering, modelling and analysis, founded on an understanding of the project's mission and business objectives. Using a sequence of traceable, linked object models the final implementation may be continually checked against the specifications to ensure developers do not lose sight of the original goals.
Anyone involved in the specification of modern computer systems should read this book.
The approach taken in this book incorporates the OPEN rapid application development process and complies with the principles of DSDM.
This book is packed full of practical advice and tried and tested techniques for object modelling, illustrating how these techniques may be applied not only to models of computer systems, but to models of the world in which they have to operate. Ian Graham provides advice on how to run requirements workshops and presents a standard structure for requirements gathering, modelling and analysis, founded on an understanding of the project's mission and business objectives. Using a sequence of traceable, linked object models the final implementation may be continually checked against the specifications to ensure developers do not lose sight of the original goals.
Anyone involved in the specification of modern computer systems should read this book.
The approach taken in this book incorporates the OPEN rapid application development process and complies with the principles of DSDM.
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Shelving Category: Software EngineeringRequirements Engineering and Rapid Development: A Rigorous, Object-Oriented ApproachIan GrahamThe message of this book is simple. Software development should be done quickly and effectively. Systems that take years to develop can often end up out of synch. with their users’ evolving requirements and business objectives by the time they are delivered. Requirements Engineering and Rapid Development shows how to solve the problem by using a systematic approach to requirements gathering and business modelling. This book is packed full of practical advice and tried and tested techniques for object modelling, illustrating how these techniques may be applied not only to models of computer systems, but to models of the world in which they have to operate. Ian Graham provides advice on how to run requirements workshops and presents a standard structure for requirements gathering, modelling and analysis, founded on an understanding of the project’s mission and business objectives. Using a sequence of traceable, linked object models the final implementation may be continually checked against the specifications to ensure developers do not lose sight of the original goals.Anyone involved in the specification of modern computer systems should read this book.Requirements Engineering and Rapid Development provides integrated coverage of:-* rigorous object modelling* object-oriented rapid application development* business process modelling and requirements engineering* intelligent agents* provably correct requirements capture* organizing and running workshops* animating modelsThe approach taken in this book incorporates the OPEN rapid application development process and complies with the principles of DSDM.Ian Graham is an internationally recognized authority on business modelling, object technology and advanced computing. He has over 20 years experience as a practitioner in information technology and is currently Vice President with responsibility for software methods at Chase Manhattan Bank. His pioneering work on requirement elicitation has been the subject of numerous seminars and keynote presentations at conferences world-wide. His best selling book Object-Oriented Methods is also published by Addison-Wesley, along with Migrating to Object Technology and The OPEN Process Specification.
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Does not live up to its promise
29 Mar 2005
Format:Hardcover
In short, I found this book of little or no value. Mr Graham opens with a brief description and history of O-O modeling and systems, and the benefits (and the pitfalls) they can bring. This section is relatively decent reference material, but is tainted with the author's unending litany of criticisms about earlier approaches and systems; he rarely seems to have words of praise for any system other than what he uses and promotes (SOMATiK, based on the SOMA Modeling Language). Next, the author talks in a fairly vague and pedantic manner about applying O-O concepts to improve the quality and speed of requirements engineering. Once you've read this, you expect a strong presentation of a breakthrough way of doing requirements engineering development. However, the remainder of the book is short and anti-climactic, and hardly corroborates his claims for the benefits of O-O in requirements engineering and development. Finally, Mr Graham includes some theoretical material, e.g. on requirements provability, in appendixes, perhaps to show off his mathematical prowess.
I'm not in a position to dispute the author's credentials, or his claims of having developed some excellent real-world systems. It's just that Mr Graham fails to make his case, and, along the way, does not teach us much about how to actually perform requirements engineering in the real world. I also have my doubts as to whether the SOMATiK system that he over-promotes has much currency (see http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=SOMATiK, which defines the term as "An earlier CASE tool from the former Bezant Ltd., Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, that was known for its acceptance of specifications in text form ..."). Finally, if this were not enough, the author's criticisms of other people's work are both unprofessional and tedious.
I'm not in a position to dispute the author's credentials, or his claims of having developed some excellent real-world systems. It's just that Mr Graham fails to make his case, and, along the way, does not teach us much about how to actually perform requirements engineering in the real world. I also have my doubts as to whether the SOMATiK system that he over-promotes has much currency (see http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia/defineterm.jhtml?term=SOMATiK, which defines the term as "An earlier CASE tool from the former Bezant Ltd., Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, that was known for its acceptance of specifications in text form ..."). Finally, if this were not enough, the author's criticisms of other people's work are both unprofessional and tedious.
Great remarks on oo-requirements analysis and -modeling
27 Oct 2000
Format:Hardcover
Graham give a good insight into the pitfalls and problems in requirements engineering with object-oriented technology. Espacially interesting are the remarks and advices the author gives regarding commonly used oo-techniques such as use cases. With Semantic Object Modelling Approach (SOMA) a method for modelling is introduced, which focusses on seaminglessness between the different models. SOMA blends also into the Object-oriented Process Environment and Notation (OPEN).
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