Supporting Resources

You can download the following documents from the book's companion Web page at http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/companion/9780735623989:

1. The full version of Chapter 1, "Crash Course in Specifying Requirements."

2. The full version of Chapter 2, "The Contents of a Requirements Specification."

3. "Example Requirements," a complete set of all the examples in the book, plus the requirement templates for all the requirement patterns, to make it easy to copy and paste an individual template or example to use as a starting point when writing a requirement of your own. This document also includes a requirement pattern template, to use if you want to write your own patterns.

4. A "Ready Reference" suitable for printing, containing a diagram of all the requirement patterns plus a list of all the requirement patterns and the "applicability" of each one (to make it easy to figure out which pattern to use when).

The first two are available both as Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) documents and Microsoft XML Paper Specification (XPS) documents. The last two are available as Microsoft Word documents. To download these documents, you will need about 6 MB of disk space. For system requirements for viewing these files, see the companion Web page.