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Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition
By Dean  Leffingwell, Don  Widrig
Publisher	: Addison Wesley
Pub Date	: May 05, 2003
ISBN	: 0-321-12247-X
Pages	: 544
Slots	: 1			Copyright
		The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series
		The Component Software Series
		Foreword
			The Rock Problem
			About This Book
		Preface to the Second Edition
			About the Second Edition
			Acknowledgments
		Preface to the First Edition
			Context
			Requirements Lessons from Building Software for Others
			Lessons from Building High-Assurance Systems
			Lessons from the Requirements Management Business
			Experiences at Rational Software
			Summary
		Introduction
			Chapter  1.   The Requirements Problem
				The Goal of Software Development
				A Look at the Data
				The Root Causes of Project Success and Failure
				Summary
			Chapter  2.   Introduction to Requirements Management
				Definitions
				Application of Requirements Management Techniques
				The Road Map
				Summary
			Chapter  3.   Requirements and the Software Lifecycle
				Traditional Software Process Models
				The Iterative Approach
				Requirements in the Iterative Model
				Summary
			Chapter  4.   The Software Team
				Software Development as a Team Activity
				The Case Study
				Summary
		Team Skill  1.   Analyzing the Problem
			Chapter  5.   The Five Steps in Problem Analysis
				Step 1: Gain Agreement on the Problem Definition
				Step 2: Understand the Root Causes ”The Problem Behind the Problem
				Step 3: Identify the Stakeholders and the Users
				Step 4: Define the Solution System Boundary
				Step 5: Identify the Constraints to Be Imposed on the Solution
				Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Chapter  6.   Business Modeling
				The Purpose of Business Modeling
				Using Software Engineering Techniques for Business Modeling
				From the Business Model to the Systems Model
				When to Use Business Modeling
				Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Chapter  7.   Systems Engineering of Software-Intensive Systems
				What Is Systems Engineering?
				Requirements Allocation in Systems Engineering
				The Case Study: Systems Engineering for HOLIS
				Summary
			Team Skill 1 Summary
		Team Skill  2.   Understanding User and Stakeholder Needs
			Chapter  8.   The Challenge of Requirements Elicitation
				Barriers to Elicitation
				Summary
			Chapter  9.   The Features of a Product or System
				Stakeholder and User Needs
				Features
				Summary
			Chapter  10.   Interviewing
				Context-Free Questions
				Solutions-Context Questions
				The Moment of Truth: The Interview
				Compiling the Needs Data
				A Note on Questionnaires
				Summary
			Chapter  11.   Requirements Workshops
				Accelerating the Decision Process
				Preparing for the Workshop
				Setting the Agenda
				Running the Workshop
				Summary
			Chapter  12.   Brainstorming and Idea Reduction
				Live Brainstorming
				Idea Reduction
				Web-Based Brainstorming
				The Case Study: The HOLIS Requirements Workshop
				Summary
			Chapter  13.   Storyboarding
				Types of Storyboards
				What Storyboards Do
				Tools for Storyboarding
				Tips for Storyboarding
				Summary
			Team Skill 2 Summary
		Team Skill  3.   Defining the System
			Chapter  14.   A Use Case Primer
				The Benefits of Use Cases
				Use Case Basics
				A Step-by-Step Guide to Building the Use-Case Model
				On Use Cases, Storyboarding, and User Interface Design
				The Case Study: The HOLIS Use Cases
				Summary
			Chapter  15.   Organizing Requirements Information
				Organizing Requirements of Complex Hardware and Software Systems
				Organizing Requirements for Product Families
				On "Future" Requirements
				The Case Study: Organizing the HOLIS Requirements
				Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Chapter  16.   The Vision Document
				Components of the Vision Document
				The Delta Vision Document
				Summary
			Chapter  17.   Product Management
				The Role of the Product Champion
				The Product Manager in a Software Product Company
				Primary Activities for a Product Manager
				Supporting Activities
				The Product Champion in an IS/IT Shop
				Summary
			Team Skill 3 Summary
		Team Skill  4.   Managing Scope
			Chapter  18.   Establishing Project Scope
				The Problem of Project Scope
				The Hard Question
				The Requirements Baseline
				Setting Priorities
				Assessing Effort
				Adding the Risk Element
				Reducing Scope
				The Case Study: Scope Management for HOLIS
				Summary
			Chapter  19.   Managing Your Customer
				Engaging Customers to Manage Their Project Scope
				Communicating the Result
				Negotiating with the Customer
				Managing the Baseline
				Summary
			Team Skill 4 Summary
		Team Skill  5.   Refining the System Definition
			Chapter  20.   Software Requirements ”A More Rigorous Look
				Looking Deeper into Software Requirements
				The Requirements Dilemma: What versus How
				More on Requirements versus Design
				A Further Characterization of Requirements
				Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Chapter  21.   Refining the Use Cases
				How Use Cases Evolve
				The Scope of a Use Case
				The Case Study: Anatomy of a Simple Use Case
				Extending Use Cases
				Including Use Cases in Other Use Cases
				Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Chapter  22.   Developing the Supplementary Specification
				The Role of the Supplementary Specification
				Expressing Functional Requirements in the Supplementary Specification
				Exploring Nonfunctional Requirements
				Understanding Design Constraints
				Identifying Other Requirements
				Linking the Supplementary Specification to the Use Cases
				Template for the Supplementary Specification
				Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Chapter  23.   On Ambiguity and Specificity
				Finding the "Sweet Spot"
				Techniques for Disambiguation
				Summary
			Chapter  24.   Technical Methods for Specifying Requirements
				Pseudocode
				Finite State Machines
				Decision Tables and Decision Trees
				Activity Diagrams
				Entity-Relationship Models
				Summary
			Team Skill 5 Summary
		Team Skill  6.   Building the Right System
			Chapter  25.   From Use Cases to Implementation
				Mapping Requirements Directly to Design and Code
				Realizing Use Cases in the Design Model
				From Design to Implementation
				Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Chapter  26.   From Use Cases to Test Cases
				A Tester's Perspective: Musings on the Big Black Box
				Is a Use Case a Test Case?
				Common Testing Terms
				Relationships of Test Artifacts
				The Role of the Test Cases
				Use-Case Scenarios
				Deriving Test Cases from Use Cases: A Four-Step Process
				Managing Test Coverage
				Black-Box versus White-Box Testing with Use Cases
				Summary
			Chapter  27.   Tracing Requirements
				The Role of Traceability in Systems Development
				The Traceability Relationship
				A Generalized Traceability Model
				Using Traceability Tools
				Proceeding without Traceability Tools
				Summary
			Chapter  28.   Managing Change
				Why Do Requirements Change?
				"We Have Met the Enemy, and They Is Us"
				A Process for Managing Change
				Requirements Configuration Management
				Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Chapter  29.   Assessing Requirements Quality in Iterative Development
				Software Project Quality
				Assessing Quality in Iterative Development
				Requirements Artifacts Sets
				Performing the Assessment
				Quality Assessment Checklists for Requirements
				Summary
			Team Skill 6 Summary
				Looking Ahead
			Getting Started
				Dedication
				What You've Learned So Far
			Chapter  30.   Agile Requirements Methods
				Mitigating Requirements Risk with Effective Requirements Practices
				Methodology Design Goals
				Documentation Is a Means to an End
				An Extreme Requirements Method
				An Agile Requirements Method
				A Robust Requirements Method
				Summary
			Chapter  31.   Your Prescription for Requirements Management
				Selecting Your Requirements Approach
				On to the Next Release!
		Appendixes
			Appendix  A.   HOLIS Artifacts
				Background for the Case Study
				Team Skill 1: Analyzing the Problem
				Team Skill 2: Understanding User and Stakeholder Needs
				Team Skill 3: Defining the System
				Team Skill 4: Managing Scope
				Team Skill 5: Refining the System Definition
				Team Skill 6: Building the Right System
			Appendix  B.   Vision Document Template
				Table of Contents
			Appendix  C.   Use-Case Specification Template
				Table of Contents
				Use-Case Name
			Appendix  D.   Supplementary Specification Template
				Table of Contents
			Appendix  E.   Requirements Management in the Rational Unified Process
				The Structure of the Rational Unified Process
				Requirements Management in the Rational Unified Process
				Process Integration
			Appendix  F.   Requirements Management in the SEI-CMM and within ISO 9000:2000
				Requirements Management in the SEI-CMM
				Requirements Management in ISO 9000:2000
		Bibliography