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Software Requirements: Styles and Techniques [Paperback]

Soren Lauesen (Author)

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Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (11 Dec 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0201745704
ISBN-13: 978-0201745702
Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 18.4 x 3.1 cm

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Suitable for most any IT professional who wants to build better software, Software Requirements: Styles and Techniques offers a surprisingly readable textbook-style treatment of software engineering's numerous attempts to get it right with defining requirements. Surveying almost every conceivable style of defining requirements, yet remaining thoroughly practical, this book can let your organisation do more with its requirements documents, which is a good step to creating software that succeeds better with your users.

Though everyone in software design knows about requirements, actual examples have usually remained shrouded in secrecy whether out of concerns over intellectual property or client confidentiality. One considerable strength of this title is that the author has seen many good and bad requirements documents and come up with several complete samples for a Danish shipyard and two hospital systems that can be published here.

Reading Software Requirements will likely convince you that you can do better with your requirements documents. Though there is no one "best" way, certain types of requirements work for certain situations better than others. This text can help you choose. Certain to be required reading for serious software analysts, this title can also benefit virtually anyone who works with software design documents. Its clear presentation style, remarkably devoid of jargon, helps make this book a great resource for a wide range of readers, with or without a background in traditional software engineering. --Richard Dragan

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Most IT systems fail to meet expectations. They don't meet business goals and don't support users efficiently. Why? Because the requirements didn't address the right issues. Writing a good requirements specification doesn't take more time. This book shows how it is done - many times faster and many times smarter. This book covers many aspects of requirements. Styles: Traditional and more cost/effective ways of expressing requirements. Techniques: Ways of gathering, verifying, and maintaining requirements; ways of getting commitment from the stakeholders and support - yet limit - innovation; ways of ensuring that you meet your business goals. It discusses the styles and techniques useful for different project types, for instance software developed specifically for the customer, software bought off-the shelf and adapted for the customer (COTS), and software developed for a broad market. The book illustrates everything through real-life examples. It also deals with difficult requirements, for instance how to specify ease-of-use, how to specify very complex computations, and how to deal with 200 reports that the old system has, and the new system may or may not need. The book shows two complete, real-life specifications and large parts of several others. It also has exercises and figures for presentation.

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4.0 out of 5 stars eyes-opening reading, simple ideas with big effects, 21 Mar 2004

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I discovered the book by accident, reading an article from the author in a scientific journal.
The article was just enough to make me realize that most of us who think of software requirements being just a question of good sense plus large eyes and ears, are wrong. It's neither scientific theory, but it's an art. The author has captured the essence of making proper requirements into a quite clever method whose most remarkable characteristic is simplicity.

The book indeed discusses the method invented by the author himself but not only: it contains a quite good inventory of the whole range of modelling and requirement methodologies that have been invented. Each one is positioned with regard to what it can bring and where it helps.

Simply stated: eyes opening!

It's already a few month ago that I purchased the book and tried: as a software and systems architect, the book in general and "tasks & support" method in particular have already been helping me on several occasions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Original book,! Distinctive approach for requirements., 27 Mar 2002

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Very original book; a rich source of knowledge and reflection. The approach is quite distinctive; it combines industrial and academic experience. We feel from the examples presented in the book and their conceptualisation that the author went through a long and painful (but fruitful) learning process of requirements engineering.

The author presents various techniques and models, and he stresses that there is no RIGHT model for all situations. He also discusses practical issues/problems, with a balance between pragmatism and perfection. The book discusses the types of projects, contracts and appropriate requirement elicitation/engineering techniques to be considered.

One of the rare books, that discuss seriously Quality Requirements, not from the surface and not just by listing them from standards, but in details with practical examples, especially usability.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who deals with requirements! Practitioners, students and teachers.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on SW requirements, 17 Mar 2008

By Rantanen Antti - Published on Amazon.com

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"Software requirements - styles and techniques" is best book I have ever read on SW requirements.

I fully recommend it to anyone involved in requirements analysis. Not a "theoretical" book but one with great practical information. It has also fulll examples of requirement specs!

I invite anyone interested in taking look at slides that are available in author's website. They give you an good overview on books value. When I saw these slides and "Task & Support" requirements style I just had to buy this book.

I am not involved in any way with the author. I just want to give this good review because I feel the book can FINALLY shed light on requirements analysis with CONCRETE examples of requirements and not just some academic theories.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent material, 18 April 2003

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If you've ever worked/will work with getting requirements in a software project, you can't go wrong with this book. Taking you first through the basics, Lauesen then goes on to discuss the different techniques of specifying requirements under different conditions. Man, this is gonna save your bacon one of these days... :)

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