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  • Paperback: 228 pages
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley (28 Jun 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0201877120
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201877120
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 261,766 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Software Reqiuirements and Specifications is the latest book from Michael Jackson, one of the foremost contributors to software development method and practice. The book brings together some 75 short pieces about principles and techniques for requirements analysis, specification and design.

The ideas discussed are deep, but at the same time lightly and wittily expressed. The book is fun to read, rewarding the reader with many valuble and novel insights. Some sacred cows, including top-down development, dataflow diagrams and the distinction between What and How, are led to the slaughter. Readers will be provoked--perhaps to fury, perhaps to enthusiasm, but surely to think more deeply about topics and issues of central importance in the field of software development.

There are new ideas about problem structuring, based on the concept of a problem frame, leading to a clearer notion of complexity and how to deal with it. And other important topics include:



  • Principles for evaluating development methods
  • New approaches to capturing and describing requirements and specifications, based on the relationship between the software system and the problem context
  • The technology of desciption in software, including new ideas such as designations, the separation of descriptive moods and the scope and span of description
  • Incisive information about the proper role of mathematics and formalism.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent little book!, 22 Mar 1998
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I loved this book. It is one of the rare books that can be read for education or for entertainment. The book is written for software engineers and architects. Jackson's thesis is that most of the battle in software engineering is in describing the problem to be solved, not in solving it. When the problem is clearly represented, then the solution often falls out. He presents universal techniques that are independent of analysis and design method. He provides systematic, disciplined methods for thinking about and communicating about problems of any sort. Thoughtful readers will enjoy it greatly.
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