User-Centred Requirements Engineering

by Alistair Sutcliffe

Overview

If you have picked up this book and are browsing the Preface, you may well be asking yourself"What makes this book different from the large number I can find on amazon. com?". Well, the answer is a blend of the academic and the practical, and views of the subject you won't get from anybody else: how psychology and linguistics influence the field of requirements engineering (RE). The title might seem to be a bit of a conundrum; after all, surely requirements come from people so all requirements should be user-centred. Sadly, that is not always so; many system disasters have been caused simply because requirements engineering was not user-centred or, worse still, was not practised at all. So this book is about putting the people back into com­ puting, although not simply from the HCI (human-computer interaction) sense; instead, the focus is on how to understand what people want and then build appropriate computer systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852335175
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	08/05/2002
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Understanding People.- 3 RE Tasks and Processes.- 4 Understanding Requirements Conversations.- 5 Representing the Problem.- 6 Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering (SCRAM).- 7 Requirements Analysis for Safety Critical Systems.- 8 Future Directions.- References.