Requirements Engineering: Laying a Firm Foundation

Overview

This textbook lays the foundations for System-of-Systems Requirements Engineering and Requirements Management practices, principles, technique, and processes. It provides a comprehensive treatment of requirements engineering, an integral part of Multidisciplinary Systems Engineering.

Content and Approach

The book takes the student/reader through the entire process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing, and managing requirements, and then goes on to describe controlling and communicating requirement change throughout the system development lifecycle.

Key Topics

The authors discuss the role of requirements management in support of other requirements engineering processes; describe the principal requirements engineering activities and their relationships; introduce techniques for requirements elicitation and analysis and describe requirements validation and the role of requirements reviews; and discuss the role of requirements management in support of other requirements engineering processes.

Additional Resources

A full suite of classroom material is provided including exercises, assignments, and PowerPoint slides.